China hits back at Anthropic’s call to restrict its AI, warns against ‘fearmongering, vicious competition’

China slams call to curb its AI China’s ministry of foreign affairs on Monday criticised a call by Anthropic’s chief for the United States to curb China’s artificial intelligence capabilities, as he pushed for a global slowdown in the development of AI. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, in a lengthy essay published on Saturday, warned that a “Chinese lead in AI would pose grave danger for the United States and the world.” He called for continued restrictions on the sale of cutting-edge AI chips and chipmaking equipment to China to maintain the United States’ lead in artificial intelligence. Responding to a…