Trump discusses AI guardrails with Xi Jinping
Donald Trump discussed establishing artificial intelligence guardrails with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The talks focused on keeping humans in long-term control of machines. Miles Brundage, Executive Director of AVERI, described the discussions as a significant day for standard AI policy guardrails. Rob Bensinger reposted commentary on the potential for a resulting long-term agreement between the leaders.
#16Miles Brundage@MILES_BRUNDAGEBig day for "the standard [AI] guardrails that we talk about all the time"
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Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_President Trump answering an AI policy question on Air Force One: President Trump: 'We talked. We're leading, by a lot. But they're second, and they're very strong. And we talked about possibly working together for guardrails.' Reporter: what kind of guardrails? President Trump: 'The standard guardrails that we talk about all the time. AI is fantastic. So many things can happen in terms of health, and medicine. Operations. Everything. Military. So many things can happen. But it's also got some drawbacks. And we're talking about... We probably will, we're going to work together.'
#1265Peter Wildeford🇺🇸🚀@PETERWILDEFORDTREASURY SECRETARY BESSENT: "All three of the leading companies, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google/Gemini, their large language models are increasing in power very, very quickly. [...]
The good news is the US is the undisputed leader in the world here. [...] We're actually going to be discussing the AI guardrails with the Chinese because the Chinese are substantially behind us[...] We're going to set up a protocol in terms of how do we go forward with best practices for AI to make sure non-state actors don't get a hold of these models. [...]
Our responsibility is to come up with the highest performance calculus where we can get the most innovation and the highest level of safety."