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Henry Kissinger warns US-China decoupling would harm AI governance
- ‘It is essential that we learn from each other,’ says former US secretary of state, speaking to audience at Bund Summit
- He says Beijing and Washington should work together to regulate artificial intelligence, without ‘an attempt for one side to achieve domination’
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Former US state secretary Henry Kissinger said a US-China decoupling would lower living standards in both countries and harm their ability to manage the emerging field of artificial intelligence.
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“In this sense, it is essential that we learn from each other,” he said via video link at the Bund Summit, a finance forum in China’s financial hub of Shanghai. “It is essential that we should not proceed in the decoupled way.”
Kissinger said China’s deep integration into the global economy has strengthened the US-China relationship because the two have become dependent on each other for trade.
However, in recent years the US and EU have attempted to “de-risk” from China and other rivals by moving to confine the supply chains for crucial resources – such as rare earths – to a circle of more trusted nations.
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