Real co-operation on AI is likely to elude China and America
TO DANGLE A Nobel peace prize is a sure way to pique Donald Trump’s interest.
dangle
dangling
to hang or swing freely 悬垂；悬挂；悬荡；悬摆
Gold charms dangled from her bracelet.
她的手链上挂着许多金饰物。A single light bulb dangled from the ceiling.
He sat on the edge with his legs dangling over the side.
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他耷拉着双腿坐在边缘上。
So it was telling that Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, proposed a new pathway to it ahead of a visit this month to America by China’s president, Xi Jinping. If the two leaders could reach a deal on artificial intelligence, both should get the award, Mr Altman told Fortune magazine on September 12th. Echoing other American AI bosses after new warnings that superintelligent models could destroy mankind, Mr Altman argued that China and America should not risk losing control of the technology in their race to dominate it. “I don’t think this is hard,” he said. “This is like a one-page document.
If only. America and China have not held official AI talks since 2024, when they declared that humans should retain control of nuclear weapons. Mr Trump and Mr Xi agreed in Beijing in May to restart the AI dialogue, raising hopes for a new consensus on the risks, such as: non-state actors making bio-weapons; hackers crippling national infrastructure; and AI models going rogue.
non-state actor = a person or organization that is not a government or official government body, but can still have political, military, economic, or social influence.
American officials hoped for at least one round of dedicated AI talks before Mr Xi’s trip to America on September 24th. Their priority was to set up a joint AI “working group” of officials with technical expertise and the authority to negotiate