The US President today rejected more regulations applied to Artificial Intelligence (IA) and defined this as one of the central themes in the talks with the Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, who shares this position.
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24/09/2026
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“ Uan important day with President Xi of China. Superintelligence (SI) will be a key topic of discussion, but I want to leave things exactly as they are. That is also China's position. Our guarantee is the Department of Justice!”, he said in his social network Truth Social, referring to AI as ‘superintelligence’, a term he coined during his speech in the general debate of the 81st UN General Assembly.
The Republican leader also considered that the US legal system is sufficient to control this technology.
“Our safeguard is the Justice Department,” he added.
The Chinese President landed on Wednesday in the US capital for a three-day state visit.
In a message released today by Chinese official agency Xinhua, Xi argued that “the two countries should be partners, not rivals”.
Moments before Trump's publication, the spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, He Yadong, had already confirmed that the leaders of Beijing and Washington discussed AI.
According to He, the two parties maintained an exchange of views “French, deep and constructive” on economic and commercial issues of common interest and reached “several consensuses” under the guidance of the understandings reached by Xi Jinping and Donald Trump.
The spokesman added that, within the same consultation mechanism, China and the United States maintained “the first dialogue” on artificial intelligence, an issue that has gained weight on the bilateral agenda due to the technological rivalry between the two powers and the debates on the safety of advanced models.
He did not, however, provide details on the content of the talks or clarified whether notification or incident management mechanisms related to the AI were addressed, a possibility discussed in previous contacts between the two parties.
On Monday, 20 countries and the European Union (EU) issued a joint declaration calling for international cooperation to keep the AI under human control and proposed the creation of a new global entity to regulate the most advanced systems.
Both China and the United States have not signed the declaration.