Same Machine, Different Packaging Xi Jinping said in Washington that AI must remain under human control and serve humanity. Trump prefers to call much the same thing “Super Intelligence.” It is almost surprising that it did not become “American Intelligence.” Or “Trump Intelligence.” Though perhaps it is best not to give anyone ideas. Safety guardrails? “Our guardrail is the DOJ!” In other words, instead of building specific safeguards into AI, the Department of Justice will step in once something has gone wrong badly enough to become a legal matter. Reassuring. Especially with a technology whose central question is precisely what happens when we realise, too late, that something has already gone wrong. Meanwhile, Washington and Beijing are competing for exactly the same prize: more AI, faster AI and more powerful AI. The name may change. The race does not. Humans, of course, must remain in control. Preferably, their humans.