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US-China AI rivalry raises the challenge of keeping humans in control
A summit between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping highlighted the tension between faster AI deployment and the need for limits, monitoring, and human intervention.
South China Morning Post Economy says the US-China AI race faces a dilemma: both countries view artificial intelligence as a source of economic, scientific, and strategic power, which reduces incentives to slow development even as systems become more autonomous.
The outlet argues that as AI grows more capable, the central question shifts toward whether humans can maintain control through limits, monitoring, and the ability to intervene, rather than relying only on regulatory disagreements.
According to the piece, competition rewards faster deployment and greater delegation to machines, but those same traits can make human authority harder to preserve when AI can act for sustained periods without continuous direction.
It adds that while conventional geopolitics treats AI mainly as an instrument to be used toward human-defined objectives, the concern becomes greater when the technology can operate more independently in international politics, with a summit last week between Trump and Xi bringing the tension into focus.