Washington summit—

The Deal That Ends the Race Before It Ends Us

On 24 September they are in the same room. We are asking them to agree one thing: keep the AI that cures cancer, never build the AI that replaces us. Two signatures. One afternoon.

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Donald Trump and Xi Jinping shaking hands in front of the flags of the United States and China
Busan, 30 October 2025Photo: Xinhua / Chinese Embassy

One meeting, two endings

AI deal, or no deal?

Both sides give up the one thing neither of them wants, and keep everything they do.

Deal
  • Medicine keeps moving. Every Tool AI that diagnoses, designs drugs and reads scans stays legal, funded and unrestricted.
  • America keeps its lead. Energy, manufacturing, logistics, defence — the AI that builds things is untouched by the ceiling.
  • People stay in charge. No superintelligence race, verified on both sides, with the largest training runs declared and inspected.
No deal
  • A race nobody wins. The finish line is a machine loyal to nobody.
  • Sabotage as strategy. Each side attacks the other's labs to keep from falling behind.
  • Loss of control. The people building it put extinction risk beside pandemics and nuclear war.
  • The window closes. The next chance to sign this is a summit nobody has scheduled.

What they would be signing

The deal that keeps the cure and kills the race

This is not a pause on AI. Medicine, energy, manufacturing and defence AI continue. What stops is the one race neither government can win: the sprint to build a system more capable than humanity at everything.

  1. Clause 1

    End the race

    No superintelligence race. Prohibited until there is scientific consensus it can be built safely and controllably, and public buy-in to proceed — language already signed by more than seventy thousand people, including five Nobel laureates.

  2. Clause 2

    Set the ceiling

    A hard ceiling on the compute in any single frontier training run. Above 1026 FLOP prohibited, above 1025 declared and monitored, plus a registry of every cluster able to exceed it. Europe already uses the lower line. Nobody has set the upper one — this is America setting it, and China accepting it.

  3. Clause 3

    Verify like warheads

    Both sides inspect, both sides are inspected. Chip-level tracking, declared data centres, mutual inspection. Neither side has to trust the other — the mechanism is already drafted.

  4. Clause 4

    Keep everything else

    Applied AI is protected: drug discovery, fusion and grid research, weather, logistics, education. A ceiling on one thing, not a brake on progress — lawmakers in both parties have already moved in this direction.

Thresholds like these already exist in regulation. What is new is that both sides accept the same one, and both sides can check.

What to do before the 24th

They can sign it in an afternoon
We, collectively have to ask

  1. 01

    Sign it

    Your name joins a public record of people who asked for this deal before the summit. We can’t make them read it. We can make it impossible to say nobody asked.

    Your name is not used for anything else.

    Add my name
  2. 02

    Tell the White House

    One sentence, already written. Send it before 24 September.

    “Put the AI deal on the table when President Xi visits on 24 September: no superintelligence race, verified on both sides, with every other kind of AI left alone.”
    Write the White House
  3. 03

    Send it to one person

    No ads, no budget. This only reaches them if it moves hand to hand.

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