China spy chief warns AI threatens party rule as Beijing rejects US curbs

China has rejected calls for the US to curb its artificial intelligence industry as “fearmongering”, even as its top intelligence official warned that rapidly evolving AI could threaten the Communist Party’s political and ideological security. Chen Yixin, head of China’s Ministry of State Security, accused “hostile forces and individuals with ulterior motives” of using AI to wage what he described as a “propaganda war and a cognitive war” against China, The Guardian reported. US-CHINA AI RACE Chen specifically cited US AI models including Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s GPT-5.5-Cyber, claiming they had been weaponised and represented emerging cybersecurity threats, according to…