AIBRIEF
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun called Dario Amodei's essay 'fearmongering' before a Sept. 24 meeting expected to put AI governance on the table.
China's Foreign Ministry publicly rejected Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call for the U.S. to curb China's AI development on Monday, with spokesperson Guo Jiakun branding the appeal "fearmongering" and "confrontation" at a regular press briefing in Beijing.
"Fearmongering, confrontation and vicious competition will only disrupt the process of global AI governance which serves no one's interest," Guo said, per the Los Angeles Times.
Amodei, who leads Anthropic, the maker of the Claude chatbot, published a lengthy essay Saturday warning that "a Chinese lead in AI would pose grave danger for the United States and the world" and pressing for continued restrictions on advanced AI chips and chipmaking equipment sales to China. He also predicted, as a side forecast, that a swarm of AI "agents" could overwhelm the internet in six to 12 months unless researchers agree to slow down, while conceding that "global pacing will require cooperation with China."
President Trump on Sunday downplayed calls to slow AI development, said the U.S. was leading China, and declared "whoever wins AI, wins."
The public argument lands formally on Sept. 24, when Trump and Xi Jinping are expected to discuss AI governance. A state-run Global Times editorial on Sunday dismissed Amodei's essay as a veiled call to "contain" China, signaling the line Beijing will carry into the meeting.