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  • What Cold War Hotlines Suggest About the Proposed US–China AI Incident Line

    The AI incident line the US proposed to China on Sunday has Cold War precedents, and a 2024 Lawfare article had already urged one. By their stated aims, those precedents were meant to keep accidents between rivals from becoming wars, not to end the rivalry.

  • The US–China AI Line: a Smoke Detector, Not a Building Code

    The US has proposed a “notification mechanism” with China for artificial intelligence incidents that could affect national security ahead of today’s Trump–Xi summit, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday. The mechanism is essentially an open line between Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, and Beijing has not publicly agreed, Politico reported, citing four people…