For global AI governance, the US and China must cooperate while competing
A commentary in The Hill argues that the United States and China need to find ways to cooperate on AI governance frameworks even as they remain strategic competitors. The piece frames coordinated international rules as necessary despite the broader geopolitical rivalry between the two countries.
Why this matters: When the two biggest AI powers set rules separately, everyone else gets caught in the middle. Companies, researchers, and governments outside the US and China end up navigating two incompatible systems. The deeper issue is that AI risks — model safety, surveillance exports, autonomous weapons — do not stop at borders. A framework shaped only by competition will be built around power, not around protecting people. Whether the two countries can actually cooperate on this, without one side using governance as a tool against the other, is the real test.
Who should care: AI governance · Lawyers · Administrators · General readers · Policy
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