    Thomas L. Friedman of the New York Times came away from a China trip convinced that cooperation to regulate and contain artificial general intelligence (AGI) is the single most urgent, and most neglected, issue in US-China relations. While âfully aware of how absurd it can sound calling on the two of them to trust each other to collaborate,â collaboration is essential âto create a global architecture of trust and governance over these emerging superintelligent computers.â Otherwise, they and the robots they create will surpass us, with unpredictable consequences in trade, warfare, labor, and much else.