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China Says It Cares About Loss of Control

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But Loss of Whose Control?

July 2026 was an eventful month for the AI safety community. On July 9, the AI Futures Project released AI 2040: Plan A, a follow-up to their widely circulated AI 2027. While AI 2027 imagined a US-China race toward superintelligence ending disastrously, AI 2040 proposed a verified US-China agreement to slow the race, pause further scaling at a critical point, and preserve human control over AI. A week later, on July 17, Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech at the World AI Conference that addressed both AI’s benefits and its risks. “We must make its oversight and governance precise and…

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