Sam Altman · Anthropic · OpenAI · Nvidia · Dario Amodei · China · The Guardian Technology
China bogeyman looms large over American companies’ AI doomsday scenario
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When reporters asked Donald Trump this week if he supported calls to slow down the development of artificial intelligence out of growing fears for cybersecurity, public safety and the fate of humanity, he said no.
Key facts
- In 2025, Google co-founder Eric Schmidt, Alexander Wang, Scale AI founder (now head of AI at Meta), and Dan Hendrycks, Center for AI Safety director, wrote a wide-ranging strategic deterrence
- Leopold Aschenbrenner, a 25-year-old former OpenAI researcher, founder of an influential AI hedge fund, and husband to Amodei’s chief of staff, called for a government-led effort to reach
- Yudkowsky founded the Machine Research Intelligence Institute, which has received more than $10m in funding over the past decade from Open Philanthropy, a non-profit associated with the effective
- The position of Aschenbrenner, who made headlines earlier this year when his hedge fund lost $35bn in less than a month, was echoed in Washington
Summary
“We’re leading China in AI,” Trump said. Trump was echoing a message the AI industry has put out for years. Even as Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s CEO, led an industry-wide call this week to “pace the frontier”, he declared that the US could only slow down to the point where China could not catch up. “If we greatly restrain our AI capabilities in the belief that China will do the same, and then China defects, AI could be so powerful that such a defection could lead to their geopolitical dominance,” Amodei warned.