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At the September 24 summit Xi said both have "the capability and responsibility" to ensure AI stays "under human control." Trump posted that he wants to leave AI "exactly where it is," and "Our guardrail is the DOJ!" Treasury Secretary Bessent said the US proposed a bilateral notification system for serious national-security AI incidents. (The Hill) A bilateral incident-notification channel between the US and China would be more consequential than most multilateral declarations this month, and it got one sentence.
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