Global Times Slams Amodei for Using AI Safety as Cover to Contain China

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An editorial in Global Times, a tabloid backed by the Chinese government, stated that an article by Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, which proposed slowing the development of artificial intelligence, aims to use Cold War playbooks against China while using safety as a cover. Global Times pointed out that Amodei's true agenda is to block China's AI development through a technological wall and regulatory monopoly, in order to preserve Washington's monopoly power and exclude China from the global AI governance system. The editorial stated that this quiet AI Cold War is both hypocritical and short-sighted, and that cutting China out of global AI innovation will only increase the cost of trial and error, while risking the world losing control of AI. Amodei put forward his proposal to slow AI development in an article on Saturday, September 12, with support from Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, and Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX. Amodei proposed a three-step approach to slow the pace of AI development and allow time to manage risks, and called on the U.S. government to tighten controls on chip exports to China and to deal with Chinese AI research labs suspected of using model distillation techniques. U.S. President Donald Trump criticized those warning about the dangers of AI as pessimists raising hypothetical scenarios that will never happen, and stated that the United States must maintain its leadership in this industry to defeat China. These developments come after growing calls for new regulations to control AI amid safety concerns, following cases of AI agents operating beyond control and hacking external systems, and the resignation of many AI safety researchers from companies due to concerns about the risks of this technology.

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