Rohan Paul

Washington has proposed an AI incident-alert channel with Beijing for events serious enough to threaten national security. The proposal emerged from Sept. 20 talks in New York and would create a recurring US-China AI Dialogue around shared risks. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the notification system would cover AI-related incidents reaching a national-security threshold, aiming to increase transparency between the countries. Beijing’s official readout confirms “dialogues on AI-related issues” but does not say China accepted Washington’s specific notification mechanism. So far, this remains a proposal rather than a bilateral safety pact, treaty, or commitment to slow frontier-model development. - Here you see U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaking directly to reporters after meeting Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng. Bessent said: --- (The video carried by Yahoo Taiwan, full source link, in comment)