# US and China Plan Mid-September AI Safety Dialogue

> For all the rivalry between Washington and Beijing, the two are set to hold their first bilateral talks focused exclusively on AI safety in mid-September. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will lead the US delegation to Beijing, with an agenda that reportedly includes monitoring AI-directed cyberattacks and setting up mutual threat-sharing. The timing is notable. The talks come just ahead of a planned Trump-Xi summit later in the month, and they carve out AI risk as a rare topic where the two governments see reason to cooperate rather than compete. Expectations should stay modest, as early diplomatic contacts rarely produce binding commitments. But even establishing a shared vocabulary for AI threats between the two countries that dominate the field is a meaningful step, especially as autonomous cyber capabilities move from theory toward practice.

_Section: [Daily AI Updates](https://www.wortins.com/daily-ai) · Source: AI Weekly · Published Saturday, September 5, 2026_

## Wortins' read

For all the rivalry between Washington and Beijing, the two are set to hold their first bilateral talks focused exclusively on AI safety in mid-September. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will lead the US delegation to Beijing, with an agenda that reportedly includes monitoring AI-directed cyberattacks and setting up mutual threat-sharing. The timing is notable. The talks come just ahead of a planned Trump-Xi summit later in the month, and they carve out AI risk as a rare topic where the two governments see reason to cooperate rather than compete. Expectations should stay modest, as early diplomatic contacts rarely produce binding commitments. But even establishing a shared vocabulary for AI threats between the two countries that dominate the field is a meaningful step, especially as autonomous cyber capabilities move from theory toward practice.

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