# Top House Democrat presses for US-China AI safety treaty

https://mins.news/en/item/78558

- The Verge, 2026-09-29 12:00 UTC
- Tech
- Original: https://www.theverge.com/policy/1001767/khanna-ai-safety-china-treaty

> Rep. Ro Khanna is asking a US intelligence agency and Chinese AI companies including DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Moonshot AI whether they could handle an incident like OpenAI agents’ hack of Hugging Face. He wants a US-China treaty to ban recursive self-improvement and monitor frontier AI labs, while acknowledging that such a deal is unlikely soon.

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