Opportunity to learn

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Gupta said he was "afraid there will not be complementary cooperation. As the two sides roll out their respective governing and regulatory frameworks, though, both will have the opportunity to learn from the other sides' successes and mistakes".

"I would also submit that China's guidance on the development of AI is more encompassing than just content control," he said in reference to the FT article, which suggested that China was more concerned about the regulation of domestic AI information while the US was focused on national security and consumer privacy.

Still, he said, "there is much for each side to learn by observing the development of the industry and its regulation on the counterpart's soil".

China's AI industry is expected to accelerate over the next decade, with its market value reaching 1.73 trillion yuan ($241.3 billion) by 2035, according to research firm CCID Consulting.

China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said AI development and governance bear on the future of humanity.

"It requires concerted and coordinated response, not decoupling, severing of supply chains nor fence-building," he said when answering a question at a regular news conference on Monday.

"We urge the US side not to act contrarily to the laws of sci-tech advancement, earnestly respect the principles of market economy and fair competition, and create favorable conditions for strengthening international AI coordination and cooperation," he said.

Prabhakar said the US "did not intend to slow down AI development, but to maintain oversight of the technology".

"We are starting to have a global understanding that the tools to assess AI models — to understand how effective, how safe and trustworthy they are — are very weak today," she told the FT.