Beijing’s foreign ministry urged open and inclusive AI development after U.S. lab CEOs backed slowing frontier capability gains, Bloomberg and other outlets reported.
China’s Foreign Ministry rejected what it called AI-risk “fearmongering” after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urged labs to pace frontier capability gains, Bloomberg reported on September 14. The ministry’s response lands against Amodei’s weekend essay and interview package already covered here: https://www.aitechdaily.com/amodei-pace-the-frontier/.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun told a regular Beijing briefing that countries should promote open, inclusive, universally beneficial, and ethical AI development, Bloomberg said. CNBC and Xinhua carried similar remarks: fearmongering, confrontation, and malicious competition would only disrupt global AI governance and serve no one’s interests. Guo was answering questions about U.S. executives, including Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, and Elon Musk, backing a slower pace because of dangers from rapid advances.
Amodei’s essay argued companies should slow capability improvements so safety can keep up, while also warning that a Chinese lead in AI would pose grave danger for the United States and the world and urging chip and distillation controls. Beijing’s pushback casts those threat narratives as disruptive to cooperative governance rather than as a shared technical diagnosis. State media commentary went further in places, framing slowdown talk as a containment playbook, but the MFA line itself stuck to governance process and open development. This brief does not adjudicate extinction-risk estimates or U.S.-China chip policy.
This is an AITD news brief only.
Sources
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-14/china-rejects-ai-fearmongering-after-amodei-urges-slowdown
- https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/14/china-ai-slowdown-us-tech-ceos.html
- https://english.news.cn/20260914/1ca9e57873a74ba99de79fb27cc2987d/c.html
- https://www.aitechdaily.com/amodei-pace-the-frontier/