The United States and China agree to create a communication channel for artificial intelligence incidents

The United States and China will establish a "communication channel" for incidents related to artificial intelligence (AI), the White House reported on Friday.

President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, concluded a summit on Friday focused on the challenges of AI, a technology that worries its own developers about the risk that it could get out of control.

The two powers enabled a "United States-China Dialogue on Superintelligence (SI) to exchange views on the risks and benefits" of AI, and agreed to establish a "bilateral communication channel" for incidents, the White House said.

According to Washington, the leaders agreed to use the term SI, instead of AI.

Their next meeting is scheduled for November.

Shortly before the summit, Trump had said that he preferred to leave artificial intelligence "exactly where it is," alluding to the progress in research in that sector.

Xi took a more measured tone, advocating for the United States and China to pursue "a relationship without conflict or confrontation," as well as keeping AI under "human control."