Trump-Xi Meeting: Everything You Need to Know About the AI Talks

Ai was among the most anticipated topics to be discussed by the leaders of the most powerful economies. Aside from the potential name change of the entire industry, the meeting between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping produced no sweeping agreement to slow its development or impose new restrictions or regulations. Instead, the POTUS doubled down on his light-touch approach, while Xi Jinping stressed that increasingly powerful AI must remain under human control. No Major Agreement Trump was unusually explicit even before the meeting and made a triumphant announcement on Friday, which, as usual, praised the meeting as “very productive” and promised “tremendous things” would be happening soon. Moreover, his recent suggestion that artificial intelligence should be renamed to super intelligence appears to have received Xi’s approval. “Like almost everyone else, he seemed to like calling the poorly and inaccurately named Artificial Intelligence to a far more accurate and important name, SUPER INTELLIGENCE. That would be “SUPER!” Everyone last night agreed, also.” On the more important topics of regulation and restriction, Trump claimed that China shares the same...