China rejects U.S. AI slowdown calls as its security chief warns of AI threats

Amodei's Sept. 12 essay argued that AI developers should slow capability gains and that Washington should keep restricting sales of advanced chips and chipmaking equipment to China, the Associated Press reported. Asked about it at a briefing on Sept. 14, foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said fearmongering and confrontation would only disrupt global AI governance. The state-run Global Times described the essay as a "Cold War playbook" aimed at containing China's AI sector.

Chen's article appeared on Sept. 13 in China Cyberspace, a magazine run under the country's internet regulator. He wrote that hostile forces were misusing generative AI to fabricate political rumours and that AI-assisted hacking threatens critical infrastructure, according to AFP and Bloomberg. AFP reported that he named Anthropic's Claude Mythos and a cyber-focused OpenAI model as risks and called for domestic control of core technologies such as advanced chips. Bloomberg said the article did not mention the U.S. appeals and that nothing suggested the timing was coordinated.

AP reported that Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are scheduled to meet on Sept. 24, with AI governance expected to be among the topics.