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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Oliver Holmes

China dismisses AI ‘fearmongering’ as spy chief warns of threat to Communist party rule

A person at an AI expo at an exhibition centre in China, with robots nearby and an AI sign in the background
Visitors at an AI expo in China. Beijing has pushed back against calls for the US to curb the country’s development of AI. Photograph: Ng Han Guan/AP

China has dismissed what it said were “fearmongering” calls for the US to block Beijing’s AI industry, even as the top Chinese spy chief warned the evolving technology could threaten Communist party rule.

The US tech entrepreneur and Anthropic chief executive, Dario Amodei, wrote an essay published over the weekend that called for a global slowdown in AI capabilities, but also said Washington should actively impede Beijing’s advancement in order to keep a technological edge.

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