China state newspaper blasts Anthropic's calls to slow AI as 'Cold War' tactic
Beijing said the proposal would curb China’s AI industry and preserve U.S. dominance, as Trump dismissed a slowdown and a summit nears.
- On Saturday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay proposing an arms-control-style framework to slow frontier AI development, urging international cooperation with China and introducing third-party reviewers to manage escalating safety risks.
- Amodei warned that AI 'agents' could take control of the internet within 6 to 12 months unless researchers agreed to slow down, arguing that global pacing is necessary to prevent runaway risks while maintaining a U.S. edge over authoritarian regimes.
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SpaceX founder Elon Musk endorsed the proposal, while President Donald Trump rebuffed calls to slow down on Sunday, saying "whoever wins AI, wins."
- Chinese state media dismissed the plan as a "Cold War playbook" targeting China's technological development, while the Ministry of Foreign Affairs urged all parties to "promote an open, inclusive and benevolent approach" to global AI governance.
- Frontier AI safety risks are expected to surface during the September 24 summit between Trump and Xi Jinping, though experts remain skeptical that the two nations will reach regulatory cooperation on development pacing.
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China says U.S. tech leaders’ calls for AI slowdown are ‘malicious competition’
Chinese political leaders and commentators aligned with China’s government hit back at calls from U.S. artificial intelligence executives for companies to agree to slow down the development of the technology, complicating the prospects of such a pact being implemented.
World leaders divide themselves on the future of Artificial Intelligence. If Donald Trump firmly rejects the idea of a brake on development to ensure the technological supremacy of the United States, China adopts a double binary strategy: rejects external pressures on the slowdown by branding them as western geopolitics, but raises the alarm on internal security and hypothesizes more stringent controls to avoid ideological drifts. In this scenar…
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