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Xi-Trump to talk AI Safety, Huh?

Jordan Schneider
May 15, 2026
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This post originally appeared in ChinaTalk.

“One lesson from Mythos appears to be that for both the United States and China, advances in capability cannot be separated from increases in vulnerability.”

Today, the second half of our conversation previewing the summit that just kicked off. With Mythos scrambling everyone’s priors on frontier capabilities, AI safety is suddenly back on the bilateral agenda. Julian Gewirtz (former NSC senior director for China) and Matt Sheehan (Carnegie) join to map how Beijing is processing the shift and what’s actually achievable in renewed US-China dialogue.

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