US proposes one AI incident channel with China

Washington proposed 1 bilateral AI-incident notification mechanism with Beijing after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Vice Premier He Lifeng met in New York, with the trigger limited to incidents reaching a national-security level, Reuters reports in its account of the proposed AI-safety mechanism. China’s public readout acknowledged AI discussions but did not confirm acceptance, so this is a proposed crisis channel, not a working hotline. Builders shipping frontier or agentic systems should file it beside the archive’s federal-versus-state AI governance analysis and watch whether incident reporting becomes a deployment requirement.