China: AI CEOs are “fear mongering.”
When asked about the flurry of weekend blog posts and tweets from the CEOs of Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft, SpaceX, (and Alphabet’s Hassabis) calling for a coordinated slowdown on the development of advanced AI models, a spokesperson for China’s Foreign Ministry said, “Fear mongering, confrontation, competition will just disrupt [the] process of global AI governance.”
TL;DR
- China's Foreign Ministry views the calls by AI CEOs for a slowdown in advanced AI development as "fear mongering."
- The ministry believes such actions would disrupt the process of global AI governance.
- This perspective shares some common ground with Donald Trump's view that the CEOs are exaggerating potential risks.
- Beijing acknowledges and supports international regulation of AI.