China pushes back on AI warnings after Anthropic CEO urges slower development

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The Chinese government has criticised warnings of severe risks from AI after executives at leading US technology companies called for slowing the development of AI models and warned that China's AI advantage could threaten US national security. Guo Jiakun, spokesperson for China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said at a press briefing on 14 September that countries should promote open, inclusive, mutually beneficial and ethical AI development, adding that fearmongering, confrontation and a race to harm one another would obstruct global AI governance and benefit no one. The move came after Dario Amodei, chief executive of Anthropic, urged AI developers to slow the pace of increasing AI capabilities and warned that risk safeguards may not keep up with advances in technology. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, backed Amodei's proposal for independent third-party evaluations with access to systems on the same level as company employees, while Elon Musk also endorsed Amodei's view as correct. China itself has also stepped up warnings about AI risks, with Chen Yixin, China's minister of state security, writing in an article on Sunday that misuse of AI by adversaries could threaten China's political and ideological security as well as critical national infrastructure. Earlier the same day, Global Times, a Chinese state media outlet, attacked Amodei's proposal, accusing the Anthropic CEO of quietly waging an AI cold war to block China's technological development, and said Amodei also supports restrictions on China's access to advanced chips and has called for cracking down on the use of outputs from US AI model training to train rival systems, a process known as distillation.

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Anthropic CEO Amodei urged slowing AI development and independent evaluations; China's foreign ministry and Global Times attacked his proposal as an AI cold war, but the impact on Anthropic itself is mixed.

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Altman backed Amodei's call for independent third-party evaluations of AI systems, a governance/regulatory proposal, but no company-specific development.

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