The CEOs of two of America’s top AI companies told the UN Security Council on Wednesday that artificial intelligence has become a threat to global security, and asked world governments to write shared rules for it. Yet the White House won’t jump. On Thursday morning, ahead of his summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Trump posted that “super intelligence”—his administration’s new term for AI—would be a big topic of discussion, “but I want to leave it exactly where it is. That is China’s position also.” He added: “Our guardrail is the DOJ!” And hours later, standing next to Trump at the White House, Xi struck a different, more cooperative note. “We have both the capability and responsibility to develop and manage AI for good and ensure that development of AI is always under human control,” he said. Behind the scenes, the two nations have begun talking. China’s commerce ministry said at a press conference Thursday the countries had held their first dialogue on AI, after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent met Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in New York earlier in the week. Bessent said that the U.S. proposed a notification mechanism between the two countries for national security-related AI incidents. Read more [paywall removed for Redditors]: https://fortune.com/2026/09/24/us-china-ai-labs-converge-ai-guardrail-hotline/ submitted by /u/fortune
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