Anthropic · Dario Amodei · China · U.S. · AI Safety · The Atlantic Technology
China Has No Tap for AI Doomerism
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AI is everywhere in China.
Key facts
- A Stanford University industry report published this year cited polls showing that 84 percent of Chinese respondents said products and services that use AI made them excited
- With the United States and China in a race to develop the most cutting-edge technologies, many in China also saw Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s proposal calling for an intentional slowdown in AI
- And in July, President Xi Jinping warned about the risks of AI and pushed for multilateral cooperation in AI governance
- It also attracted rare consensus from Amodei’s biggest rivals—OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and the SpaceXAI founder Elon Musk—and ignited a debate among industry executives, national-security hawks
Summary
Encouraged by a steady drumbeat of state propaganda, the Chinese population has largely come to see AI, like previous waves of digital disruption, as a means of easing everyday life while also creating new jobs and industries. So when the American tech sector reached a new level of AI panic last week, across the Pacific Ocean, the Chinese AI community largely shrugged—including the people working on the technology’s safety. Chinese engineers and AI-safety experts the reporter spoke with told me that although they recognize the existential safety risks of AI, they feel that losing control of the technology is a distinctly American challenge—for now. Amodei’s post, which fueled the AI panic across Silicon Valley, capped a whirlwind two months of cybersecurity breaches by agentic models from top U.S. and Chinese labs.