The agreement, Sept. 23 -- The world's two dominant artificial intelligence powers agreed Sunday to establish a formal channel for warning each other when their AI systems generate incidents serious enough to affect national security - a first-of-its-kind arrangement reached after eight hours of talks at JPMorgan Chase's Manhattan headquarters between Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng.

a category broad enough to encompass everything from autonomous weapons behavior to infrastructure penetration, but specific enough to exclude routine commercial AI failures.

What the dialogue does not cover is as informative as what it does. Export controls on advanced semiconductors and AI chip manufacturing equipment r...