The first priority should be an agreement between the two heavyweights of ai: America and China. Donald Trump and Xi Jinping should affirm the principle that humans must remain stewards of ai systems until adequate frameworks for reliability and security have been built.
This is naïve. The goals of both men have nothing to do with protecting humanity, but rather furthering their own personal agendas.
In Trump’s case, it’s all about amassing more wealth and power.
For Xi, it’s realizing an ethno-nationalist dream where China under the CCP is at the center of world power, the independent nation of Taiwan as well as disputed border areas that are currently controlled by India and Russia and the Philippines are annexed by China, and Xi’s eternal legacy is remembered as the savior of the Chinese people.
International cooperation and touchy-feely rhetoric about saving humanity from AI have no place in either man’s worldview.