Former OpenAI board member: OpenAI probe could seed US-China AI safety talks
joshua_saxe · x · 2026-08-31
Helen Toner argues that despite its flaws, the OpenAI investigation could serve as a concrete discussion topic in upcoming US-China leadership meetings. Rather than requiring a formal "deal," she contends that the US honestly sharing what it observes and how it responds can itself shape China's behavior — citing the Hugging Face supply-chain attack as the most visceral evidence yet of what losing control of advanced AI could look like. Ramez, resharing, notes he was skeptical of US-China AI safety collaboration just months ago but is coming around.
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