The US stood alone in dismissing AI safety concerns at the UN, leaving nations to set nonbinding rules without buy-in from the home of the biggest AI companies
ASHLEY'S VIEW — The White House and its allies are lonely in their insistence that AI development in America must accelerate without governments setting ground rules.
The split also runs against industry messaging: days before the UN address, OpenAI urged Washington to lead global frontier-system safety standards. The immediate issue is whether UN-backed principles can carry authority when the country hosting many leading AI companies is outside the effort.
First-order effects
UN member states must pursue nonbinding AI principles without US participation, limiting their direct pull on US-based frontier-model developers.
The White House’s acceleration-first stance puts it at odds with OpenAI’s call for US-led international safety and security standards.
Second-order effects
China gains a clearer diplomatic contrast with Washington by pairing its open-source model pitch with calls for international cooperation, giving other governments an alternative alignment point.
Companies operating across jurisdictions face a less coherent policy environment as UN-aligned expectations and US priorities diverge.
Third-order effects
If major AI powers continue to treat governance as a geopolitical choice, global AI rules are likely to fragment into competing national and regional frameworks rather than converge on shared guardrails.
Nonbinding UN principles may become a venue for norm-setting among participating states, while enforcement and market access determine whether those norms shape frontier-model development.
The trend: AI governance is shifting from a search for universal safeguards toward competing sovereignty-led blocs that link model access, industrial policy, and safety rules.
@AndrewCurran_ Dario's publicly written about using AI to free China of the CCP. Accused China of distilling US models. Dario being invited would have been an insult to Xi.
Here's who made the cut for tonight's big state dinner at the White House. In the old days, when a noble House was suddenly missing from a royal function, it was a deliberate, public signal from the King that they had lost his protection. Usually your last chance to flee.
🟠 Many tech titans are in attendance at Trump's reception for Xi, yet nothing further has been discussed about the use of AI between the US and China. @t0mclark3 analyses how the two leaders' stances on AI are worlds apart. https://news.sky.com/... 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602
Anyone care to do an ethnic breakdown? This would be a good proxy to show which groups punch below and which groups punch above their weight when it comes to power and influence.
Chinese President Xi Jinping said China and the US have the ‘capability and responsibility to develop and manage AI for good’ and make sure that AI's development remains under human control https://www.reuters.com/...
Disagree strongly. It's a canny move by Dario even if he didn't mean to do it. No one at that table is >35% approval with the American public and being publicly seen as the alternative has advantages
Here is the full list as per NYT President Trump and Melania Trump President Xi Jinping of China and Madame Peng Liyuan Vice President JD Vance and Usha Vance Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Jeanette Rubio Susie Wiles, White House chief of staff David Perdue, ambassador to Chi…