# AI Governance Must Forestall Loss of Control by Xi Jinping > “With AI advancing at a staggering speed, we must ensure its development is for the positive, for good and for humanity. We must make its oversight and governance precise and effective, and constantly refine measures to forestall loss of control.” > **— Xi Jinping**, *World AI Conference address, 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Timecoded episode recording:** [*The Ezra Klein Show* at 19:40](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjZ90V_JREk&t=1180s) — recording and precise locator for the source object preserved in this Reminder. - **Additional source:** [Contemporaneous report reproducing the World AI Conference statement](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/09/25/trump-rejects-demands-ai-rules-while-xi-calls-human-control/) — primary or contemporaneous material supporting the embedded statement or report. - **Reconciled source dossier:** [[research/Why Are We Sprinting Off the AI Cliff - Ezra Klein on Recursive Self-Improvement|Why Are We Sprinting Off the AI Cliff?]] — preserves broadcast order, speaker attribution, editorial conventions and the surrounding argument. - **Editorial treatment:** The poster text follows the reconciled source object without substantive alteration; spoken punctuation and transcript lineation are normalized for reading. - **Context:** Xi presents effective oversight and governance as necessary to keep rapidly advancing AI under human control. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Article:** [[articles/Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower from AI Factory to Citizen|Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower]] - **Article:** [[articles/Safety Discourse Is Transition Discourse|Safety Discourse Is Transition Discourse]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public|The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public]] - **Article:** [[articles/AI-Tech Doomerism and Anti-Science Panic|AI-Tech Doomerism and Anti-Science Panic]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Xi Jinping|Xi Jinping]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Xi Jinping|Xi Jinping]] - [[wiki/World AI Conference|World AI Conference]] - [[wiki/AI Governance|AI Governance]] - [[wiki/Loss of AI Control|Loss of AI Control]] - [[wiki/China AI Superpower|China AI Superpower]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “With AI advancing at a staggering speed, we must ensure its development is for the positive, for good and for humanity. We must make its oversight and governance precise and effective, and constantly refine measures to forestall loss of control.” — Xi Jinping, World AI Conference address, 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-xi-jinping-ai-governance-forestall-loss-control ```