Xi-Trump to talk AI Safety, Huh?

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ChinaTalk is in SF! RSVP for an impomptu meetup tonight.Today, the second half of our conversation previewing the summit that just kicked off. With Mythos scrambling everyone’s priors on frontier capabilities, AI safety is suddenly back on the bilateral agenda. Julian Gewirtz (former NSC senior director for China) and Matt Sheehan (Carnegie) join to map how Beijing is processing the shift and what’s actually achievable in renewed US-China dialogue. Check us out on YouTube or your favorite podcast app!Good Job Alert: Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy) is hiring senior generalists and grantmakers with a China background. Coefficient created CSET (who won ChinaTalk’s inaugural ‘think tank of the year’ award) and are set to fund more in the US-China AI space. Check out the job posting here and do consider applying.The AI Safety AngleJulian Gewirtz: Both sides have been signaling that AI will feature prominently in upcoming discussions. During the Biden administration, we pushed hard to get AI safety on the agenda when President Biden met with President Xi. Beijing initially gave us the cold shoulder, but gradually realized there was no major downside to including it on the agenda.The Trump administration initially showed little concern about AI safety. JD Vance and other senior officials openly mocked AI safety as a construct, making US-China AI safety dialogue a non-starter — the United States didn’t even want it.What’s changed recently in the Trump administration appears directly tied to the Anthropic Mythos moment. The realization that extraordinary and potentia…