In a recent interview, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that Trump and Xi would deserve the Nobel Peace Prize if they agreed that "no one should be taking a certain level of risk with the development process of this [AI]."
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a similar suggestion in an MS NOW interview and reiterated it on X. The Trump administration, she said, has "a huge opportunity to enlist China in the effort to rein in AI when President Xi visits." While Altman may not fully understand the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Clinton, given her extensive government and foreign policy experience, should have known better. Each time the United States has sought cooperation from the CCP on major issues, the CCP has used these opportunities to advance its own interests at the expense of the United States. Let’s look at some examples from the past two decades.