The White House said late Friday that the United States and China will set up a formal dialogue on artificial intelligence, along with a channel for communicating about serious incidents, as an outcome of the Trump-Xi summit.
The administration’s fact sheet says the two sides will call the technology “super intelligence,” or SI, adopting the term President Trump has pushed since his address before the UN General Assembly. A “U.S.-China Super Intelligence (SI) Dialogue” will meet on the risks and benefits of the technology, with the next session due by November.
The summit also produced a pledge to create a “bilateral communication channel for SI incidents,” which officials have compared to the Cold War-era red telephone. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent pressed for the channel during pre-summit meetings with Chinese counterparts.
What counts as an incident worth a notification remains undefined, and neither side has said how quickly either government would pick up the line.
Trump has described the exercise in competitive terms even while endorsing it. “The use of the word ‘artificial’ … makes it sound fake,” he said this week, announcing that US documents would switch to the word “super.” On Friday he posted that Xi “seemed to like” the change.
The agreement creates a diplomatic format without constraining either government’s AI programs, and leaves trade and export controls on a separate track.
