China-US AI race: Can they still work together?

中美人工智能竞赛:他们还能合作吗?

The Point with Liu Xin

2026-09-21

26 分钟
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China and the U.S. are competing fiercely in artificial intelligence. But when it comes to AI safety and governance, can the world's two largest economies find common ground? With both sides maintaining dialogue on AI governance, questions remain: What risks do they share? Where do their perspectives differ? And how can they cooperate on AI safety while competing in the global AI race?
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  • Cutting through an overload of information to get to the heart of the story.

  • This is The Point.

  • Can the world's two largest economies cooperate on AI safety?

  • As calls HIDA for the United States and China to work together on AI governance,

  • an issue of obvious global implications, questions loom large.

  • The good news is that there is political will, as the two sides agree to establish dialogue on AI governance during U.S.

  • President Donald Trump's visit to China in May this year.

  • Three months later, the two sides began exploring joint efforts in the field in the so-called Track 1.5 dialogue.

  • The two countries are maintaining communications on AI related issues.

  • What common risks do we face?

  • What are our different perspectives, and how might the two sides cooperate while also competing in the AI race.

  • Welcome to a special edition of The Point, an opinion show coming to you from Beijing with me, Lu Xin.

  • I'm pleased to be joined on the set by Xiao Qian, Vice Dean of the Institute for AI International Governance

  • and Deputy Director of the Center for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University.

  • Brian sier founder and ceo of concordia ai the only social enterprise dedicated

  • to ai safety and governance based in china and i'm also joined online

  • by steve hoffman ceo of founder space a global innovation hub for entrepreneurs corporations

  • and investors welcome to the point The latest talk in town or talk on earth is how dangerous AI is.

  • I'm sure we've all seen the trending video from a former researcher with one of the biggest

  • AI companies in the world coming out in public saying the company's CEO actually says different