US, China Experts Want Nuclear-Style Rules for Military AI
As Washington and Beijing prepare for high-stakes talks on artificial intelligence, two experts — one American, one Chinese — have put the same radical idea on the table: treat military AI the way the superpowers once treated nuclear weapons. Melanie Sisson, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Tianjiao Jiang, an associate professor at Fudan University in Shanghai, published separate papers last week proposing explicit red lines around the use of AI in warfare — borrowing directly from the Cold War playbook that kept nuclear competition from tipping into catastrophe. Their proposals come from the US-China dialogue on AI and national security convened since 2019 by Brookings and Tsinghua University's Center for International Security and Strategy. The timing is deliberate. Both governments are preparing for government-level AI talks, and President Trump is scheduled to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington on September 24 — a summit where AI and trade are ...