China Rejects U.S. AI Slowdown Push as Safety Debate Becomes Geopolitical

China pushed back against calls from U.S. technology leaders to slow frontier AI development, criticizing the warnings as fear-driven and arguing that global AI governance should be cooperative rather than defined by strategic rivalry. The response came after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urged the industry to pace the development of the most powerful systems, a proposal that has drawn support from other AI executives while intensifying the debate over whether safety controls would protect the public or tilt the global AI race.