Donald Trump told reporters on Friday that he and Chinese President Xi Jinping talked about AI safety during their two-day summit in Beijing, according to Bloomberg . What safeguards, exactly? “Standard guardrails that we talk about all the time,” he said. Great! Except… there are no standard guardrails . In the United States, AI regulation is a mess. There is a patchwork of state-level laws that take steps to restrict some of the more harmful and dangerous uses of AI. California has been a leader in this space and passed a major AI safety bill last year, though one can quibble with just how effective the legislation is . But at the federal level, very little meaningful action has been taken. Last year, Trump revealed his “ AI Action Plan ,” which offered up 90 policy recommendations that amount to a whole lot of nothing.…