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Bessent proposes a US–China AI incident hotline

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The newsletter reports Scott Bessent advocating a US–China AI incident hotline, warning that Chinese open models are nearly as capable but lack safeguards, and advising concerned laboratories to slow down.

Reporting date: 2026-10-05 (not necessarily the event date)

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Bessent proposes a US–China AI incident hotline
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-10-05
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-10-05-bessent-hotline
Claim: The newsletter reports Scott Bessent advocating a US–China AI incident hotline, warning that Chinese open models are nearly as capable but lack safeguards, and advising concerned laboratories to slow down.
Attributed sources:
- Welcome to October 5, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-october-5-2026
- Source linked by the October 5 issue — https://www.axios.com/2026/10/03/china-ai-bessent-axios-show
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