The US and China: a "superintelligence" dialogue and an incident channel
During Xi Jinping's state visit to Washington in September 2026, according to a White House fact sheet of 25 September, Donald Trump and Xi agreed to use the term "super intelligence" instead of "artificial intelligence", established a US-China Super Intelligence Dialogue, with the next exchange by November 2026, and agreed to create a bilateral communication channel for incidents.
Why it matters
The two states with the largest AI programmes agreed on a standing bilateral format on the risks of frontier systems and on a channel for incidents, choosing a bilateral arrangement where two days earlier the United States had rejected a global one at the Security Council.
The dialogue is to exchange views on the risks and benefits of what the two sides now call super intelligence. The day after the fact sheet Trump, according to the Times of India, told reporters he did not want to "integrate" efforts with China because the United States is "leading by a lot"; the paper also cites Xinhua for the dialogue being launched under an eight-point consensus. What the record does not claim: that the incident channel already exists; the fact sheet says only that the sides agreed to establish it. The session read no Chinese government document, so how Beijing describes the agreement is given only from the newspaper's account.