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Trump Says Xi Summit Will Not Produce New AI Guardrails

September 24, 2026 at 10:47 EDT

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President Donald Trump said he does not expect his summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping to produce new guardrails for artificial intelligence, dampening expectations for a bilateral safety accord at the moment the technology is becoming a central U.S.-China security issue. The position leaves any near-term risk controls to existing institutions, with Trump pointing to the Department of Justice rather than a new international mechanism.

Sept. 24, 2026 · U.S.-China AI policy

No new AI guardrails

Trump signaled that the Xi summit will leave AI oversight where it is, pointing to the DOJ instead of a new bilateral framework.

The governance field is split

A 15-member Security Council debated safeguards as China-backed WAICO listed 29 founding countries.

Security Council members

WAICO founding countries

Each band represents one member on the same count scale.

What changes at the summit

AI on agendaSuper Intelligence is a topic for Trump and Xi.

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No new pactTrump says he wants to leave oversight where it is.

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DOJ framingExisting law enforcement is presented as the guardrail.

The policy divide

Acceleration case

Avoid hard-to-verify limits
Protect U.S. advantage over China

Safety case

Build incident-reporting channels
Set standards before autonomous failures

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