Leaders of top AI companies say the artificial-intelligence industry should slow its fast-moving development to give safety measures time to catch up. Without such a slowdown, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that AI could be capable within six to 12 months of leading a swarm of agents that could take over the entire internet. (Produced by Elaine Carroll)

Visitors walk past a display depicting artificial intelligence and a human hand at the China International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing on Monday, June 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

FILE- A worker passes by robots from Chinese company Lens at the China International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing on Monday, June 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Dario Amodei, CEO and co-founder of Anthropic, attends the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

BEIJING (AP) — China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday bristled at the Anthropic CEO’s call for the U.S. to curb China’s artificial intelligence capabilities as part of a wider argument for a global slowdown on AI development.