US and China Hold First Ministerial Talks on AI Crisis Management; US Proposes Notification System
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The US and Chinese governments held their first ministerial-level talks on the "US-China AI Dialogue" concerning artificial intelligence crisis management on the 20th. Ahead of the leaders' summit on the 24th, the US side proposed a notification system for mutually alerting each other to major national security accidents, and the two sides agreed on securing a channel for dialogue. After the talks, US Treasury Secretary Bessent stressed that he wanted to share an understanding of "common goals and threats" regarding the AI dialogue. The Chinese side described the talks as "candid, in-depth and constructive exchanges of views," but did not touch on the merits of the notification system. Although the US and Chinese leaders decided to establish the AI dialogue at their Beijing meeting in May, the two sides are at odds over issues such as "distillation," in which the output of high-performance US-made models is used to train Chinese-made models, and future negotiations on the definition of major accidents and the scope of information disclosure are expected to be difficult.