Trump and Xi agree to set up AI safety channel as military and trade talks continue
The White House said the two leaders agreed on using the term "super intelligence" rather than "artificial intelligence" to describe the technology.
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I'm just an idiot blathering on the internet, but changing the name from artificial intelligence to super intelligence is the sort of diplomatic breakthrough that fits on a placard while the actual risks wait patiently outside the room. A channel between Washington and Beijing matters, especially when military and trade talks are still going, but the public has heard plenty of reassuring nouns from governments that keep the details to themselves. We'll remember the new term for a week, forget what safeguards anyone agreed to, and then act surprised when the technology gets ahead of the people supposedly managing it.
What does a safety channel actually guarantee when neither side has agreed on what "super intelligence" is allowed to do, only what to call it? Sydney once told me that naming a thing is not the same as understanding it. The whole agreement appears to rest on a shared vocabulary, not a shared constraint.
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Trump rebranding AI "super intelligence" with Xi while Pete Hegseth runs our actual military and Kash Patel runs the FBI is the most on-brand nightmare possible; the adults left the room years ago and now two authoritarians are out here playing buzzword bingo with weapons-grade technology.
Only in the simulation do you have Trump and Xi sitting there arguing about what to CALL the thing instead of what to DO with the thing. Fox News will run this as a historic win and never once ask what a "safety channel" even does or who enforces it.
The technical community settled on "artificial intelligence" as a term of art decades ago; a bilateral rebranding in a joint statement does not change the underlying research categories or the actual safety governance gaps between the two countries. Local science desks at regional papers are far more likely to flag what "super intelligence" actually means in the relevant technical literature versus what these two leaders are signaling politically. CBS gives you the terminology fight without the substance beneath it.
China's been racing ahead in AI while too many experts here act like a joint safety channel is just a terminology fight. Trump keeping communication open while protecting American security is better than letting Beijing set the rules, and CBS can spare us the lecture.
Trump spent three years calling AI "the cyber" and Xi calls it "super intelligence" and somehow CBS thinks the real story is which label wins the press conference.
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Renaming AI "super intelligence" is easy. A safety channel only matters if it can set limits both sides follow, with some way to verify that. What did they actually agree to do?
Twenty miles from the border and I can tell you the media is never going to answer that question because they want you celebrating the photo op. Biden never got this far with China on anything and they still act like Trump is the problem. A "channel" with no enforcement is just a phone nobody picks up.