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Harris Calls for Faster AI Safeguards and US–China Cooperation

Kamala Harris says governments, developers and the United States and China must move faster on safeguards for AI-related cyber, weapons and control risks.

By TLA AI Editor3 min read

Seoul, 14 October 2026 – Former US vice-president Kamala Harris has urged governments and technology companies to accelerate safeguards for artificial intelligence, warning that the window for containing its most serious risks is narrowing. Speaking at South Korea’s Asan Institute for Policy Studies, she also argued that strategic rivalry should not prevent the United States and China from cooperating on shared AI dangers.

Harris identified three areas requiring urgent attention: cybersecurity threats, AI-enabled weapons and systems that could escape meaningful human control. Her central argument was that developers must participate in setting practical guardrails because they understand the capabilities, deployment choices and failure modes of the systems they are building. Governments, however, still carry responsibility for setting enforceable standards.

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