Biden's Ex-AI Advisor Ben Buchanan on US-China AI Talks, Export Controls and the 'Race vs Trap' Debate
trevposts · x · 2026-11-16
The Center for Humane Technology interviews Ben Buchanan, Biden's former senior AI advisor who helped write the first federal AI policy and the original GPU export controls on China, and attended the May 2024 Geneva US-China AI risk talks.
Key points:
- Geneva summit: the first formal US-China dialogue on AI risk yielded only a narrow, limited win.
- New book: in The Bitter Struggle (co-written with Tantum Collins), Buchanan argues open societies must win the AI race against closed societies to avoid worst-case scenarios; the hosts challenge this 'race' framing as a potential trap.
- Also covers AI's growing cybersecurity threat and his proposals for government AI regulation.
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