US, China gear up for mid-September AI safety dialogue

BEIJING: The U.S. and China are gearing up to discuss AI safety risks during a dialogue planned for mid-September, two sources briefed on the discussions told Reuters, as rapidly advancing frontier AI capabilities reach a global tipping point.

The ​talks, the first official bilateral discussions devoted exclusively to AI between the U.S. and China ​since U.S. President Donald Trump took office for a second time, will be led by U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on the U.S. side, the sources, who were briefed ​on the planning, said on condition of anonymity.

Reuters is reporting the tentative mid-September period for the first time. Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping are due to meet on September 24 during a summit in Washington.