The author says the real AI “security” question is whether humans stay in charge of the systems, not which superpower wins—and that neither the U.S. nor China can keep that control unless they cooperate, which their race makes almost impossible.

Xi’s Shanghai World AI Conference line on AI that is “secure and controllable” and not an overstretched national-security excuse is set against spy chief Chen Yixin’s China Cyberspace warning that AI could threaten the Party and must be used to fight “hostile forces.” In Washington, Trump and Bessent are cast as dominance-first; Anthropic’s Dario Amodei warns of recursive self-improvement and even a future agent swarm taking over the internet, but still wants the U.S. lead kept wide so democracies can “pace.”

Chip export limits follow that logic. The piece tells readers not to take any of the speeches at face value, to keep expectations low for Xi’s U.S. visit this week, and to notice the stakes for the species either way.

China and the United States are now competing for AI dominance. But what’s needed is a new mind-set about the meaning of “security” in the emerging world of AI — where the central question should not be who gains AI dominance but whether human beings maintain dominance over AI.

The dilemma is that humans won’t be able to maintain dominance over AI unless China and the U.S. — the two leading AI powers in the world — join together to seek it, but our competition for dominance makes this nearly impossible.

Xi Jinping will be visiting the United States this week. It’s an opportunity for the new mind-set, but will China and the U.S. take it?

Xi recently gave a keynote address at the World A.I., Conference in Shanghai which contained some clues to his thinking. In it he said:

“We should … ensure that AI is secure and controllable. AI should be a trusted tool for humanity. We should take seriously the various types of inherent and secondary risks that AI may trigger. We should put in place laws and regulations, technological monitoring, early warning and emergency response systems in order to strengthen the line of security, prevent abuses and malicious use, and ensure that AI is always under........

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