China has agreed to maintain conversations on control of nuclear weapons with USA next week, the first since the administration of Barack Obama, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
The talks are aimed at avoiding a dangerous arms escalation three-way between United States, China and Russia, but they do not constitute the beginning of talks formal for limit the nuclear weapons, the newspaper reported.
A U.S. State Department spokesperson did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
The teams of the president of the United States, Joe Biden, and the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, reached an agreement in principle for the two leaders to meet in San Francisco in November, although important details have not yet been finalized, a senior administration official said Tuesday. Biden.
A series of bilateral diplomatic engagements in recent months, largely at the request of USA, has tried to save what was deteriorating between Beijing and Washington after the shooting down of an alleged Chinese spy balloon over the United States.
Commitments on Artificial Intelligence
While USA and China bring closer positions on nuclear weapons, both countries signed together with the European Union and twenty States the Bletchley Declaration for a “secure” development of the artificial intelligence (AI), at the first international summit on the rise of this technology.
“This historical statement marks the start of a new global effort to increase public trust in AI, ensuring it is safe,” said British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on X (ex Twitter).
The document, whose signatories also include Brazil and Chili, underlines “the urgent need to collectively understand and manage the potential risks” of AI.
Given the growing potential of models such as ChatGPT, the Bletchley declaration “shows that, for the first time, the world is coming together to identify the problem and highlight its opportunities”the British Minister of Technology, Michelle Donelan, stressed to AFP.
The meeting “is not intended to lay the foundations for global legislation, but rather should serve to chart a path forward,” he said.
Source: Ambito
