Donald Trump says "whoever wins superintelligence wins" in AI contest with China

During an ongoing meeting between President Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, Trump told a general assembly gathering of world leaders on Tuesday that artificial intelligence would be a major focus of their talks. In those remarks, Trump cast AI as a decisive contest and asserted that the United States currently holds a large advantage over China. The article says the world needs the two leaders to try to prevent a spiraling competition over artificial intelligence. Researchers Nicholas Wheeler and Marcus Holmes say the challenge recalls the Reagan-Gorbachev summits of the late 1980s, when nuclear proliferation was the main fear. The article says the hope is that Trump and Xi can find common ground and cooperate.