What is China saying about the US-led calls to slow down AI development?

China has issued its own response to a weekend dominated by US AI giants reaching a rare consensus to call for a government-enforced slowdown at the frontier of the technology. 

According to Beijing’s top intelligence official and state media, the message out of Anthropic via Amodei, Sam Altman for OpenAI, Musk for xAI, and others who have entered the conversation since is a “Cold War” tactic. The country also warned that the technology has become a security threat in its own right.

China calls out ‘Cold War playbook’ 

According to Anthropic’s Dario Amodei’s “We Must Pace the Frontier” essay, the chief executive pushed for US authorities to curb chip export routes and model distillation by Chinese labs as part of a publication that presented a framework to slow down the pace of frontier model development as a matter of safety.

In an editorial by China’s state-backed Global Times, the view from China is based on skepticism that this is an “attempt to curb China’s AI development through technological barriers and regulatory monopolies, uphold Washington’s monopolistic hegemony in cutting-edge technology, and exclude China from the global AI governance system.” 

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