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Asked this week whether he’d support slowing AI development over cybersecurity and safety fears, Donald Trump gave a one-word rationale: China. “Whoever wins AI wins,” he said, echoing an argument the AI industry has pushed for years to keep regulation at bay. Even Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who led an industry-wide call this week to “pace the frontier”, qualified his own caution: the US can only slow down as far as China won’t catch up. Amodei has spent years warning that authoritarian control of advanced AI could enable mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, and he’s pushed for aggressive measures like…
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