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- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urged a slowdown in AI development, prompting China to denounce his comments as 'fearmongering' across multiple state-aligned outlets.
- Chinese state media dismissed the slowdown appeal as 'self-serving,' while China's top spy chief separately warned that AI itself poses a threat to Communist Party rule.
Why it matters: The exchange spotlights a split in China's AI posture: Beijing publicly rejects outside pressure to restrain AI development as fearmongering, even as its own intelligence leadership publicly warns AI poses a threat to Communist Party rule.
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