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    "parsed_content": "Trump-Xi SummitUneasy Trade TruceXi\u2019s StrategyRare EarthsArtificial IntelligenceTaiwan Arms SalesAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSupported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTU.N. Seeks Relevance on A.I. as the U.S. and China Race AheadArtificial intelligence is a race solely between two rival powers with the rest of the world largely on the sidelines, foreign policy experts said.Listen \u00b7 6:50 min Share full articleEmployees at a data training center of Spirit AI at the company\u2019s headquarters in Beijing last week. Artificial intelligence will be the dominant theme of several meetings at the U.N. General Assembly this week.Credit...Tingshu Wang\/ReutersBy Dustin VolzReporting from WashingtonSept. 21, 2026\u9605\u8bfb\u7b80\u4f53\u4e2d\u6587\u7248\u95b1\u8b80\u7e41\u9ad4\u4e2d\u6587\u7248See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra m\u00e1s de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de b\u00fasqueda. Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York Times en Google As the threats posed by artificial intelligence spark international alarm, the stakes of the Chinese leader Xi Jinping\u2019s state visit to Washington this week have only grown bigger.Earning considerably less attention are the meetings focused on A.I. at the United Nations General Assembly in New York this week, as world leaders gather in the shadow of several rogue A.I. hacking episodes that have prompted greater fears.A.I. will be a dominant theme for a fleet of U.N. meetings on Monday centered on international digital cooperation. The schedule includes discussions about the technology\u2019s risks and opportunities, the potential for economic dislocation and possible international governance.Mr. Xi is expected to skip the General Assembly to instead convene in Washington with President Trump, who has repeatedly dismissed A.I. safety concerns as a hoax.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThere is no shortage of tension between the two countries, and A.I. is just one of several issues the two sides are expected to discuss. But few issues are as contentious right now \u2014 or as important to humanity, some say \u2014 as the race for A.I. dominance.The United States has repeatedly accused Chinese A.I. firms of stealing the intellectual property of American A.I. labs. China, too, continues to agitate against U.S. restrictions on advanced computer chips needed to power A.I. models.Some onlookers, though expecting little, compared the urgency for a breakthrough on A.I. safety issues between the world\u2019s two superpowers to the need for nuclear arms control agreements during the Cold War.The U.N. gathering and the White House meeting underscore how much A.I. has become a race solely between two rival powers, with the rest of the world largely pushed to the periphery, foreign policy experts said.\u201cThe U.N., to put it bluntly, has been sidelined in the A.I. conversation,\u201d said Kyle Chan, a foreign policy fellow at the Brookings Institution who studies U.S.- China relations and focuses on technology issues.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTA.I. is \u201ca two-player game,\u201d Mr. Chan added. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of like nuclear weapons: If you do not have them or are not on the verge of having them, it\u2019s hard to be relevant in shaping the discussion.\u201dReflecting that reality, the United States and China discussed on Sunday creating a notification system to allow for the countries to alert each other about A.I.-driven national security risks. The mechanism, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said, would be called \u201cthe U.S.-China A.I. dialogue.\u201dSign up for the On Politics newsletter. It's a pivotal moment for American politics. Join us for 2026 and beyond. Get it sent to your inbox.It is not for lack of trying. Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, the U.N. secretary general, pushed last week for international cooperation on A.I., highlighting it as one of three existential risks facing humanity alongside climate change and deepening global inequality.A.I., he said, presents other dangers, including amplifying misinformation, discrimination, privacy violations, cyberattacks and so-called superintelligence that could advance beyond human control.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT\u201cWe need a shared understanding of how to advance the safe, secure and responsible development of A.I., while identifying when increasingly powerful systems may require stronger safeguards,\u201d Mr. Guterres said. \u201cThe world cannot afford a race to the bottom on A.I. safety.\u201dImageOpenAI\u2019s Stargate, the largest data center project in the United States, in Abilene, Texas. The company\u2019s chief executive, Sam Altman, will speak to the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday, a company spokeswoman said.Credit...Scott Ball for The New York TimesUnder Mr. Guterres, the United Nations has been trying to build international consensus around responsible A.I. development for years, including by forming an advisory body in 2023 to study the issue. And on Monday, the leaders of 22 countries adopted a declaration calling to strengthen \u201chuman direction, oversight and control\u201d of A.I. systems. The United States and China did not join the declaration.The two countries have only further cemented their leads ahead of everyone else since the U.N. began worrying about A.I., rushing to build out data centers and release cutting-edge A.I. models despite growing fears about existential risks associated with the technology.In his remarks last week, Mr. Guterres acknowledged that \u201cgeopolitical divides\u201d made policing A.I. difficult but said that voluntary pauses on the technology would not work if not everyone agreed to them \u2014 meaning, right now, the United States and China.China had generally been seeking to increase its influence with the United Nations, but this summer launched the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization, which has its headquarters in Shanghai, in a bid to assert global dominance on international A.I. discussions. The United States has shown little interest in building international consensus on A.I. or other geopolitical matters.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe U.N. Security Council may hold more sway on A.I. than the General Assembly. The OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman will speak to the Security Council on Wednesday, a company spokeswoman said. But it is difficult to imagine the Security Council \u2014 on which the United States, China and Russia sit \u2014 forging a consensus, experts said.Mr. Altman\u2019s appearance at the United Nations is just a warm-up. A day later in Washington, he will join a far larger roster of A.I. and technology leaders for the U.S.-China state dinner, including Nvidia\u2019s Jensen Huang, SpaceX\u2019s Elon Musk and the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.Julian Ku, a professor of constitutional and international law at Hofstra University, said that the United Nations has always struggled to influence superpowers on the uses and limits of weapons they have that others do not, from nukes to high-powered hacking tools.In the context of nuclear weapons, that took the form of helping nonnuclear nations gain access to nuclear power while spreading nonproliferation agreements, Mr. Ku said. While the United Nations would like to steer the A.I. safety conversation, it will probably find more success working to ensure the rest of the world is not fully left behind on the benefits societies could reap from the technology, Mr. Ku added.\u201cIn a lot of ways, this is the story of the U.N. from the outset,\u201d Mr. Ku said. \u201cThe U.N. can\u2019t really shape the actions of those who have the power directly, but they do have the interests of everyone else who do not have that power.\u201dAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT",
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