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President Joe Biden and Xi Jinping’s top three priorities were negotiated during their high-profile conference in San Francisco last year, and American and Chinese officials may satisfy in Geneva on Tuesday for discussions aimed at regulating artificial intelligence technology.
According to a White House speech, representatives from the State Department, the Department of Commerce, and Chinese counterparts did exchange ideas on how to address the risks of superior AI techniques.
Artificial regulation appears to be one of the several areas where the world’s two big powers have been willing to work up recently, with the two countries co- sponsoring , a resolution , at the United Nations in March to motivate more dependable development of AI technologies.
It was also one of Xi and Biden’s three big agreements, including one that would reinstate military-to-military communications and work to stop China’s export of fentanyl precursors that end up in the United States, at their November summit.
Six decades on, this year’s talks in Geneva mean that progress is being made on all three offers – the two nations ‘ leading generals held , a phone call , in December leading to an in- person , meeting , of lower level government in January, and , morphine talks  , are also underway.
A senior Biden administration official said the discussions would continue Cold War-era efforts with the Soviet Union to prevent a nuclear war by speaking on the condition of anonymity ahead of time.
The official claimed that” we do have a long history of talking with competitors about issues relating to global safety and security.” ” We do n’t see eye- to- eye with]China ] on many AI topics and applications, but we believe communication on critical AI risks can make the world safer”.
Invest, align and compete
U. S. officials are billing the meeting as part of the “invest, align and compete” strategy, which seeks to increase investment in national security and align with allies in order to compete with China.
American officials have been advising Jake Sullivan, Biden’s national security adviser, on the need to work together wherever they share interests, even if they are strategic allies, since last year’s Biden-Xi summit in San Francisco.
The senior White House official, however, claimed that the discussions on Tuesday were intended to lay the groundwork rather than secure any significant agreements.
The official stated that the discussions ‘ objectives are to focus on “risk and safety, with an emphasis on advanced systems,” adding that the outcomes would have an impact on subsequent negotiations.  ,
Instead of focusing on any particular deliverables, these talks will be an opportunity to discuss the technical risks of AI and exchange of views on the relevant areas of concern.
No significant agreements were anticipated, despite the official’s repeated refusal to comment on whether either side would have a desire to pledge that AI systems would not be in charge of deploying nuclear weapons.
But he did note that the U. S. delegation would express its concerns about the Chinese military’s increasing focus on AI capabilities.
The official stated that China is “rapidly deploying capabilities across civilian as well as military national security sectors, and in many cases in ways that we believe undermine both U.S. and allied national security.”  ,
” So we’ve of course taken targeted actions to address those risks”, he said. ” And we will make it clear that Beijing is using artificial intelligence.”
