New Delhi: Leading AI giant Anthropic has sounded a warning—the US must remain ahead of China in the AI race as transformative systems could arrive by 2028 and reshape global power dynamics.
The paper titled ‘2028: Two scenarios for global AI leadership’ comes at a time when US President Donald Trump is on a visit to China to meet his counterpart Xi Jinping, where competition over technology is one of the key points of discussion, along with Taiwan and tariffs.“It’s essential that the US and its allies stay ahead of authoritarian governments like the Chinese Communist Party, or CCP. AI will soon become powerful enough to be used to repress citizens at (an) unprecedented scale, and even to alter the balance of power among nations,” the statement read.
This also comes at a time when Anthropic’s Mythos AI recently sent off alarms across the world because of the alleged threat it could pose to global cybersecurity. Eventually, Anthropic ruled out releasing Mythos before making sure it could not be exploited by hackers. Anthropic argues that a key ingredient for developing AI is access to computer chips, and the US government seems to have limited China’s supply of American chips. “In fact, AI labs in China have only built models close in intelligence to America’s because of their talent, their knack for exploiting loopholes around these export controls, and their large-scale distillation attacks that illicitly extract the innovations of American companies,” said the statement.
