Trump expects no AI guardrails from summit with Xi Jinping

President Trump made clear on September 24 that his summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping would not produce any meaningful framework for regulating artificial intelligence. In a Truth Social post, Trump used the term “super intelligence” to describe advanced AI and essentially said he’s fine leaving the matter untouched, arguing the Department of Justice is all the guardrail America needs. That position puts the US squarely in alignment with China’s own preference: develop first, regulate maybe later. A sequel nobody expected to go differently The Washington summit, held September 23-24, was a follow-up to a meeting in Beijing back in May 2026. At that earlier gathering, Trump said he and Xi discussed a framework for AI “standard guardrails” and the potential export of Nvidia H200 chips. Neither topic produced a formal agreement. Trump’s pre-summit comments confirmed what many suspected: the regulatory conversation was dead on arrival. He views aggressive AI regulation as a competitive handicap, and the DOJ-as-guardrail argument suggests enforcement would come after problems emerge rather than through preventive rulemaking. Why AI executives are uneasy Trump’s regulatory skeptic...