China pushes back on calls for an AI slowdown as Trump-Xi meeting looms

Chinese political leaders and commentators aligned with China’s government hit back at calls from U.S. artificial intelligence executives for companies to agree to slow down the development of the technology, complicating the prospects of such a pact being implemented.

China pushes back on calls for an AI slowdown as Trump-Xi meeting looms

TL;DR

  • Chinese political leaders and commentators are opposing calls for a slowdown in AI development.
  • These calls originated from U.S. artificial intelligence executives.
  • China's pushback makes the prospect of companies agreeing to slow down AI development more complicated.