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Singer, Triolo, and Xiao were among the participants in the unofficial 'track-two' dialogues on AI between U.S. and Chinese experts.

Singer has proposed a Cold War–style emergency hotline for the U.S. and China to clarify if an AI-launched cyberattack was unintentional, thereby reducing escalation risks.

After official US-China AI talks ceased, scientists, policy experts, and business executives from both countries continued to meet in unofficial 'track-two' dialogues.

Qian Xiao of Tsinghua University states that the technology to verify compliance with a potential agreement to slow the training of large AI models does not yet exist.

Following Anthropic's April 2026 announcement about its Mythos model, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent convened an urgent meeting with bank CEOs.

On September 13, 2026, China's spy agency stated that AI presents a threat to the country's political and ideological security.

Delegations from China and the Trump Administration are reportedly scheduled to meet in September 2026 for their first official AI dialogue.

The 2024 U.S.-China dialogue on AI risks became a trade debate concerning U.S. export controls that limited China's access to semiconductors.

In April 2026, Anthropic announced that its Mythos AI model had discovered vulnerabilities in all major browsers and operating systems.

In the weeks leading up to mid-September 2026, top Trump aides, including chief of staff Susie Wiles, met with President Trump at the White House to ask him to change his messaging on AI.

A Trump adviser stated that industry allies, including Elon Musk and David Sacks, have influenced President Trump's view that falling behind China is the primary risk in AI policy.

A 2024 meeting in Geneva between the U.S. and China to discuss mitigating AI risks ended after seven hours with no agreement or commitment for further talks.

According to an adviser present at meetings about AI messaging, President Trump was unconvinced by aides who asked him to change his stance and seemed uninterested.

In a September 12, 2026 post on X, the White House's former AI czar argued that tech companies should slow AI development themselves if they perceive great risks, rather than seeking government intervention.

Greg Casar stated that Democratic consultants have often advised their clients to remain silent on AI issues to avoid having AI-related billionaire money spent against them.

On September 14, 2026, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that the only control AI needs is a "STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT."

An NBC News poll in 2026 found that 57% of American voters believe AI's risks outweigh its benefits, while 34% believe the opposite.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, rejected calls for immediate AI regulation, arguing that tech executives should be the ones to first determine appropriate guardrails.

In August 2026, Texas Governor Greg Abbott imposed a moratorium on building new data centers, a reversal of his previous support for them.

Representative Greg Casar stated that Congress should ban catastrophic AI uses, such as creating biological or nuclear weapons, overthrowing a government, killing large numbers of people, escaping human control, or deceiving humans.