'Permanent, serious' dialogue needed with China on AI: tech-focused lawmaker

Rep. James Walkinshaw’s vision for artificial intelligence regulation includes maintaining “permanent, serious” dialogue with China to mitigate the risk that powerful AI models pose.That won’t be easy, but if the U.S. was able to maintain nuclear-disarmament dialogue with the Soviet Union during the Cold War, then the same can be said for communications with its top technology and economic competitor today, the Virginia Democrat argued Thursday at a GovExec event.Those conversations are