China has sharply criticized warnings about AI risks from Anthropic CEO Amodei and other U.S. AI leaders. The state-run Global Times accuses Amodei of waging a "silent AI Cold War."
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun called for "open, inclusive, universally beneficial and ethical" AI development in Beijing (via Bloomberg). "Fearmongering, confrontation and vicious competition" would disrupt global AI governance and serve no one's interests, he said.
The Global Times accused Amodei of waging a "silent AI Cold War" to stifle China's tech progress. Amodei had called for action against "distillation," the practice of using outputs from American AI models to train competing systems.
China's State Security Minister Chen Yixin warned against AI misuse by "hostile forces" through deepfakes and cyberattacks, singling out Anthropic's Mythos and OpenAI's GPT-5.5-Cyber as models capable of finding vulnerabilities and creating malware. But unlike U.S. tech leaders, Chen pushed for more research into advanced chips, faster AI infrastructure buildout, and tighter supervision instead of a slowdown.
Tsinghua researcher Sun Chenghao says Beijing worries Washington could invoke safety or national security concerns to justify broader tech restrictions. Chinese officials may see calls to slow development as locking in an existing U.S. advantage.
