China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs 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.

Amodei urged rivals to invite embedded external auditors into their offices and coordinate a slowdown in development of AI that would allow regulators to catch up.

Dario Amodei says rapidly advancing AI systems are outpacing safeguards and is calling for new measures to “slow the pace” toward more powerful systems.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a slowdown in AI model development. He proposed a three-step plan involving independent evaluators and industry coordination. Leading AI…