{"id":135924,"date":"2026-09-24T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marinresists.com\/?p=135924"},"modified":"2026-09-24T15:31:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T22:31:56","slug":"","status":"pending","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/503997\/ai-safety-summit-china","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a global plan to save humans from AI. Can it actually work?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When the AI apocalypse becomes regular dinner-table conversation, you know we\u2019ve reached the freakout stage. Rogue AI agents are hacking<\/a> into competitors. Former Big Tech employees are posting<\/a> Skynet-style warnings on social media. CEOs are crying<\/a> for help in ways that have made this once-wonky tech issue a frontline political fight.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I still think many of the concerns<\/a> outlined by the AI leaders themselves are massively self-serving \u2014 especially when their companies are soon to go public. But the growing list of AI<\/a> scandals<\/a> is real. And it tells us that the status quo for regulating this powerful new technology is not working.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The question now on everyone\u2019s mind: Is any kind of global brake possible? What form of AI safety regime is practical, over the short term, when there is no trust between major governments? And what could possibly work when companies are loath to give up their secret sauce and are bent on domination in the global AI race?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Two major conversations are now playing out, in real time. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump welcomed<\/a> Chinese President Xi Jinping to Washington for a three-day summit \u2014 part of which will be dedicated<\/a> to AI risks. The same day, with the United Nations meeting for its annual General Assembly, heads of the world\u2019s leading AI companies urged<\/a> the UN to police the emerging technology, or risk potentially wiping out humanity. \u201cWe could lose control of the future to AI,\u201d OpenAI\u2019s boss, Sam Altman, bluntly told the UN\u2019s Security Council.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Confronted with this collective freakout, it\u2019s time to take a long, deep breath.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In fact, AI safety has been on a lot of policymakers\u2019 minds for years now, gaining momentum after ChatGPT was introduced in 2022. Governments have held hearings, convened expert groups, and drafted their own outlines of how to keep it under control. These weren\u2019t just idle listening exercises. They aren\u2019t all well known to the wider public, but they yielded real plans.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Barring any breakthroughs this week, we already have a quasi-planetary shield against the potentially runaway technology. That\u2019s the good news.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The bad news is that it\u2019s not really up and running yet. It\u2019s also not clear whether it will actually work. So what is it \u2014 and how can we fix it so we have a global system that responds in time to deal with the incredibly fast-moving threats from AI?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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What the global AI patchwork looks like now<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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For the last four years, the most tech-savvy nations \u2014 and would-be AI leaders \u2014 have been running serious conversations about this exact AI safety threat. Some are in Congress and the White House; some at the UN, at the G7, and in other capitals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I\u2019ve been covering this closely<\/a> as a global technology journalist, from my current perch<\/a> at a think tank. Here\u2019s what the landscape looks like:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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