- Trump played down AI risk in remarks on the golf course, and House Speaker Mike Johnson said developers, not Congress, are responsible for making products safe, ahead of Trump's September 24 AI meeting with Xi Jinping in Washington.
- Coverage of AI risk has been less visible on right-leaning news sites, coinciding with conspiracy theories claiming Jacob Coxon's resignation from Anthropic and the attention it drew were staged.
- The writer argues a US-China deal could start from Sam Altman's suggestion of shared standards and testing and move toward a verifiable treaty to halt the race to uncontrollable superintelligence.
- New York Times reporting describes anxious staff at AI companies organizing in private chats and dinners and urging executives to pause development, and the writer suggests few resign because the industry draws people who believe they can handle the danger.
- Rumors relayed by Andrew Curran say training of DeepMind's next model is running ahead of schedule with machine assistance, possibly recursive self-improvement, which the writer says would matter more than company proposals about pacing development.
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