Trump rejects calls to work with China on AI safety despite Xi summit progress

US President Donald Trump

said on Tuesday he does not want to work with China

on addressing artificial intelligence (AI)

risks, arguing that cooperation could undermine America’s lead in the fast-moving technology, as he announced a voluntary accord signed by the leaders of major US tech companies to address growing concerns surrounding the technology.

“Whoever wins superintelligence wins. You’re gonna have a winner and a loser, and you’re probably not gonna have a second place,” Trump said on Tuesday morning.

“We’re leading now over China and everyone else, and I want to keep it that way … The only way you can keep it that way is to do exactly what we’re doing right now.”

In recent weeks, there have been growing calls for the US and China to collaborate on mounting concerns

that frontier AI systems could be misused for cyberattacks and bioweapon development, following a string of high-profile incidents

involving US companies OpenAI