The world needs AI guardrails. Trump and Xi must now deliver them

September 17, 2026 — 7:30pm

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There will be plenty for US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to talk about when they meet in Washington next week.

But perhaps no item on their agenda is more important than artificial intelligence.

Their summit comes at a critical juncture in the development of AI, the most consequential technology of our time.

During the past fortnight, there have been dramatic warnings from AI researchers about the serious risks posed by the technology. First Jacob Coxon, a young researcher at leading AI firm Anthropic, resigned from his job and declared on social media that “the people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the........

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