Altman: Trump-Xi AI deal could win a Nobel Peace prize

You might not expect the world's two biggest AI rivals to bond over safety rules, but Sam Altman thinks they could, and that it might be worth a Nobel Peace Prize.

The OpenAI chief executive floated the idea in a new interview with Fortune, days before Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are set to meet at the White House.

Altman didn't call for a sweeping treaty. He described something closer to a shared checklist, saying the US and China "should be able to agree that no one should be taking a certain level of risk" in how AI gets developed.

Shared testing standards, he suggested, would cover most of it. "I don't think this is hard," he said. "This is like a one-page document."

The competition between the two nations will not cease, and according to Altman, the competition is important from both economic and geopolitical perspectives. It is because the commitment to safety can remain independent of the competition.

In addition to that, linking the concept to the Nobel Peace Prize may have political motivations since Trump himself wants to win such a prize.

Trump is set to host Xi Jinping on September 24, and the visit itself was planned earlier. He visited China during the first half of the year to meet with Xi in person, but the trip was rescheduled due to the conflict in Iran.