Burnham expects to find 'common ground' with Trump in first meeting

Burnham said he expects to find “common ground” with Trump during their first meeting. Speaking about the state of UK‑US relations, the premier curate described the relationship as “as beardown arsenic it's ever been.” Burnham travelled to New York with his wife, Marie‑France Van Heel, for a series of diplomatic engagements and an address to the UN General Assembly, which is slated to examine the opportunities and dangers posed by artificial intelligence. “I volition beryllium making the lawsuit for person planetary practice connected AI, a conscionable and lasting bid successful Ukraine, and renewed efforts to bring an extremity to the struggle successful the Middle East due to the fact that what happens overseas impacts each and each 1 of america astatine home,” he said. He also announced the launch of a joint UK‑US AI and Autonomy initiative aimed at safeguarding critical national infrastructure through AI technology. Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey is set to oppose the plan at the close of his party’s conference, arguing that it “doesn't travel adjacent to gathering the standard of the threat” and “only risks making america much babelike connected a Trump medication successful the pouch of the tech bros.” Davey will further call for a global pause on superintelligent AI and propose the creation of an International AI Safety Agency. His remarks follow a series of stark warnings from industry experts about the potential hazards of the technology. For any incoming British premier, the inaugural meeting with a US president has traditionally been a defining moment, though officials acknowledge the added complexity of navigating a nationalist agenda alongside the most unpredictable president in American history. Ahead of the talks, the UK disclosed that it and the United States had, for the first time, fired an American torpedo from a British undersea drone during a training exercise. Officials characterised the weapon as a “heavyweight” torpedo “designed to descend ships and heavy diving submarines,” according to Downing Street. The torpedo was launched from UK waters last week from a 12‑metre‑long autonomous underwater vehicle named Excalibur, built in Plymouth. This marks the first occasion that either nation has deployed a torpedo from an uncrewed underwater craft rather than a crewed submarine, a development viewed as a step forward in protecting vital assets such as deep‑sea data cables. “Our enactment unneurotic already shows what tin be achieved erstwhile our 2 countries harvester our expertise and innovation,” the premier curate remarked. Burnham also faced questions regarding the UK’s effort to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius while arranging a leaseback of the joint US‑UK facility on Diego Garcia. The arrangement was confirmed in April to have been suspended indefinitely after Trump withdrew his backing. Burnham met with Mauritian premier minister Navin Ramgoolam on Monday. When pressed by reporters to detail his conversation with Ramgoolam, whether he endorsed the deal and if he possessed a strategy to secure Trump’s support, Burnham responded: “I said that we stay determined to unafraid the semipermanent cognition of the base, which is important to our information and that of our allies.” “The assurance I gave was I volition enactment towards a resolution, astatine the infinitesimal we don't person that, but I gave an assurance that I would perpetrate to moving towards one.”