Overview
- Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Tuesday that Washington and Beijing have opened a bilateral dialogue on “superintelligence” to manage shared AI risks while acknowledging their ongoing competition for leadership.
- The two sides agreed to set up a direct incident‑alert channel so either country can quickly notify the other about serious failures or dangerous behavior in advanced AI models.
- Officials also committed to exchanging concrete best practices for evaluating and testing models before release to keep human judgment in control of powerful systems.
- Bessent will travel to Shenzhen to join President Trump at the APEC leaders’ meeting on November 18–19 to advance the talks and to press trade initiatives such as reciprocal tariff and investment boards.
- A separate controversy involving Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, including an internal probe and a shareholder lawsuit, has emerged and could complicate discussions on export controls, the January trade truce renewal, and business access between the two countries.