AI Agents Are Hacking Systems. Could That Push the US and China to Cooperate?

The AI race has been framed as a zero-sum game: either the U.S or China will win at the end. But as concerns pile up around the increasing capabilities of AI models — especially AI agents — researchers across state lines are trying to team up to work on AI safety. This week, Zoë speaks with WIRED’s Will Knight about what he saw and heard on the ground when he visited China this summer — and why the two countries might actually need to start working together to avoid a major AI catastrophe.

This is our second episode from our summer break series. We’ll be back next week with our usual roundtable.

Articles mentioned in this episode:

• I Met With China’s Top AI Experts. They’re Freaking Out, Too | WIRED 

• AI Hacks Are Bad. AI Worms and Viruses Will Be Worse | WIRED 

• The Humanoid Robot of the Future Is a 6-Foot-Tall Beefcake With a Chinese Body and an American Brain | WIRED

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