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White House: US, China Need to Collaborate on AI Safety – Inc

A senior Washington official says the superpowers should find a way to agree on artificial intelligence safety standards


China's President Xi meets US leader Joe Biden in Bali at the G20 summit in November 2022 (Reuters).

 

A senior White House advisor has called for the US and China to join forces and collaborate on drawing up artificial intelligence technical and safety standards, Inc reported.

US officials are growing increasingly concerned that the Chinese military could use advanced technologies for everything from codebreaking to developing new weapons, the story went on, prompting calls from the US for some agreement on international standards.

Arati Prabhakar, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, said the US has reached out to China, adding: “We understand that we’re in a moment where American leadership in the world depends on American leadership in AI.”

Read the full story: Inc

 

  • By Sean O’Meara

 

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Sean O'Meara

Sean O'Meara is an Editor at Asia Financial. He has been a newspaper man for more than 30 years, working at local, regional and national titles in the UK as a writer, sub-editor, page designer and print editor. A football, cricket and rugby fan, he has a particular interest in sports finance.