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HONG KONG \u2014 China has dismissed urgent calls to slow down the development of AI, <\/a>rejecting the grave warnings as a bid to hobble the progress of America\u2019s rival superpower rather than safeguard humanity\u2019s future.
Beijing on Monday dismissed the intervention from U.S. tech leaders as \u201cfearmongering\u201d and part of a \u201cCold War playbook.\u201d
It\u2019s the latest sign that competition between the two countries could outweigh mounting safety concerns, after President Donald Trump also rebuffed the warnings from industry leaders and said his focus was on beating China on artificial intelligence.
The comments followed a lengthy essay published Saturday <\/a>by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and endorsed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SpaceX founder Elon Musk.
Amodei said that companies should deliberately \u201cslow the pace\u201d at which they improve their models given the potential risks. He also said that a \u201cChinese lead in AI would pose grave danger for the United States and the world,\u201d and called for the U.S. to restrict sales of key tech to China.
That message was not welcomed by Beijing.
\u201cFearmongering, confrontation and malicious competition will only disrupt the process of global AI governance and serve no one\u2019s interests,\u201d Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun told reporters at a regular news briefing Monday.
The state-run Global Times newspaper<\/a> had a more blunt tone Sunday, blasting the <\/a>call for an industrywide slowdown as \u201cpacked with containment provisions targeting China and is, in essence, a \u2018Cold War playbook\u2019 for the AI sector.\u201d
AI has advanced at a breakneck speed, with models rapidly getting smarter, faster and cheaper. They have also frequently outpaced technical safeguards, fueling security fears. <\/strong>
Those fears have now reached a crescendo, but also exposed just how far apart Beijing and Washington seem to be on cooperating to address them.
Amodei himself likened the situation to the Cold War arms race, telling CBS\u2019 \u2018Sunday Morning\u2019 that the two sides should work together, but that he didn\u2019t hold out much hope.
Altman similarly said on X late Sunda<\/a>y that \u201cwhere we will need the help of our government is for international coordination.\u201d
But that might not be compatible with Trump\u2019s approach.
\u201cWe\u2019re leading China in AI. We\u2019re the most sophisticated country in the world, and frankly I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI wins,\u201d the president told reporters Sunday. He criticized \u201cvery negative forces\u201d for bringing up things \u201cthat won\u2019t happen.\u201d
While Trump rebuffs safety concerns, Beijing has acknowledged AI security risks.
State Security Minister Chen Yixin said Sunday that China must \u201caccelerate the establishment of a system for preventing and controlling AI security risks.\u201d Chen also said in the state-run China Cyberspace magazine that \u201cwe must engage extensively in international cooperation,\u201d identifying AI as \u201ca new track for strategic rivalry.\u201d
The difference in approach on tackling AI progress is likely to be a central issue when Xi and Trump meet<\/a> Sept. 24 in Washington.
Amodei\u2019s essay came just a few days after U.S. agencies published an alert <\/a>saying that top China AI companies have systematically copied cutting-edge AI models<\/a> from American companies.
Beijing rejected this accusation that its companies had been \u201cdistilling\u201d U.S. models.
China has also rejected any outside take on how its companies should pace development.
\u201cThey want to write the rules. I don\u2019t think they want to follow anybody else\u2019s,\u201d Ja Ian Chong, an associate professor of political science at the National University of Singapore and a nonresident scholar at Carnegie China, told NBC News in a phone interview.
\u201cThere\u2019s the sort of talk of cooperation, but the behavior suggests otherwise, and underlying that behavior, I think, is this deep mutual suspicion,\u201d Chong said.
Chinese companies now offer advanced AI performance at a fraction of the cost of U.S. models, with President Xi Jinping pitching China as a pioneer of open-source models in contrast to those produced by most leading American companies.
At the BRICS summit in India<\/a> on Sunday, he offered member nations<\/a> help to develop open-source AI. Xi has also outlined a potential global governance framework on AI among the Global South.<\/p>\n

Chong said the distillation clash highlighted the suspicion toward China in both the White House and Silicon Valley.
\u201cIt\u2019s a bit like an arms race. And to get de-escalation there needs to be simultaneous neutral self restraint and it\u2019s difficult to see how that would come about in this kind of environment,\u201d Chong said.
But not everyone is so pessimistic.
While a U.S.-China agreement on curbing AI progress may be a long shot, the countries could separately pursue greater regulation, said Theo Bertram, director of the London-based Social Market Foundation.
\u201cThe idea that we could see the domestic introduction of some safeguards in both countries is not impossible,\u201d Bertram said in a phone interview.
\u201cYou do it domestically and it\u2019s in everyone\u2019s interest to learn and share and for there to be accountability,\u201d he said. \u201cSome greater accountability is one way of trying to mitigate what is inevitably going to be a growing political and public demand globally.\u201d
Mithil Aggarwal is a Hong Kong-based reporter\/producer for NBC News.
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