Scott Bessent in Geneva, May 2025. U.S. Treasury / public domain. File photo; cropped.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent urged a clear-eyed approach to U.S.-China cooperation on advanced artificial intelligence Tuesday evening in New York, warning that the two countries’ interests will not always align ahead of next week’s planned Trump-Xi talks.
In prepared remarks for the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations gala in New York, Bessent said the dialogue on superintelligence is designed to guard against shared risks and prevent misunderstandings between the two countries’ systems.
He said the countries expect to exchange best practices for evaluating and testing advanced models before release and keeping human judgment in command of the technology. He also said they are establishing a direct channel so either country can promptly alert the other to serious incidents involving its superintelligence models.
“We should harbor no illusions about the differences between the United States and China,” Bessent said in the prepared text. “Our interests will not always coincide.”
The remarks revisit the AI-risk notification mechanism described in September. They are not a new announcement of that mechanism. The remarks pair cooperation on AI risks with continued competition. They describe work toward a dialogue and an alert channel, not a completed joint testing standard or a guarantee that the two governments will agree on AI policy.
Bessent also said the U.S. objective in its economic relationship with China is “to de-risk, not to decouple.” Treasury’s event notice scheduled his remarks for 8:15 p.m. Tuesday, November 10. The prepared speech is dated November 11 on Treasury’s website.
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