China state newspaper blasts Anthropic’s calls to slow AI as ‘Cold War’ tactic

An essay by Anthropic’s CEO calling for a slowing down of AI development may look like a rational statement focused on safety risks, but it is really a “Cold War playbook” targeting China, the state-backed Global Times said in an editorial.

In the essay published on Saturday and later endorsed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and ‌SpaceX founder Elon ⁠Musk, ⁠Dario Amodei outlined a framework to pace the development of frontier AI model capabilities and ​create more time to manage mounting safety risks.