Gladstone AI CEO @jeremiecharris explains why AI verification with China gets weird fast, from “Huawei boxes in CIA data centers” to taboo words that can derail an entire negotiation: "You're gonna have their model in your little CIA box or a Huawei box in a CIA data center. You take them to the IC, and they're just like, yeah, that's a hard no for me." "You'd go to China and say, let's do trust-building measures. And then the Chinese say, well, we can't do trust-building measures 'cause we…

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A meaningful U.S.-China deal on AI pacing is probably going to be messier than most people think. We spoke to a dozen current and former diplomats who've led arms control negotiations with China and Russia to understand what it would take to get there. Full report below.