China Says It Cares About Loss of Control

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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