US, China Experts Held Secret AI Safeguarding Talks – FT

US artificial intelligence companies, including ChatGPT developer OpenAI, have reportedly been involved in secret talks with Chinese AI experts about how they can deal with the risks the groundbreaking tech could bring, the Financial Times reported.

Scientists and policy experts from American AI groups, which also included Anthropic and Cohere, alongside representatives of Tsinghua University and other Chinese state-backed institutions, reportedly met in Geneva, Switzerland last year, the report went on.

The previously unreported talks are a rare sign of Sino-US cooperation amid the race for supremacy between the two superpowers in AI and quantum computing.

Read the full story: The Financial Times

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