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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is warning that any serious effort to restrain artificial intelligence development could collapse if China refuses to follow the same rules. He called that geopolitical problem the “toughest dilemma” confronting his proposal for a coordinated slowdown.

“The more long-term thing would be working together to put a speed limit on the rate of of AI progress,” Amodei told CBS News’ “Sunday Morning.” He added, “I think that’s going to be very difficult because the incentives to pull ahead and the military advantage that you get from that are so large. And honestly, I don’t know if it’s possible, but we should we should try.”

Amodei published an essay Saturday calling on leading developers to reduce the speed at which they improve their most advanced models. His appeal followed increasingly severe warnings from industry researchers about systems that could enable cyberattacks, biological threats, or other catastrophic damage.

Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon recently resigned over fears that Anthropic and OpenAI are “gambling with our lives.” The departure added pressure on an industry already facing public anger over data centers, power consumption, regulatory influence, and the enormous capital flowing into largely untested technology.

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The China question makes voluntary restraint especially difficult because Chinese startups have been narrowing the gap with leading American laboratories. Any unilateral slowdown by United States companies could surrender commercial opportunities, military capabilities, and strategic influence to a government that does not operate under the same political or market constraints.

Chinese President Xi Jinping called Sunday for a global artificial intelligence governance framework based on international consensus. He also said China would help create an artificial intelligence community for the BRICS bloc, which includes China, India, Russia, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, and six other countries.

President Donald Trump is expected to discuss artificial intelligence when he meets Xi at the White House on Sept. 24. The meeting could test whether meaningful cooperation is possible when both governments understand that leadership in artificial intelligence may deliver sweeping economic and national security advantages.

The debate is unfolding as Anthropic and OpenAI prepare for possible blockbuster initial public offerings. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Saturday that his company probably will not go public this year, partly because of safety concerns, declaring, “Right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public.”

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Despite a strained relationship with Amodei, who left OpenAI to establish Anthropic, Altman publicly endorsed the essay and agreed on the need to “pace the frontier.” That rare agreement suggests concern is spreading among the executives who are closest to the most capable models.

Google DeepMind chair Demis Hassabis also backed the proposal, writing, “Dario’s essay points towards the right path forward.” He continued, “The details need working through, but the direction is correct for meeting this critical moment.”

Amodei outlined a three part strategy intended to moderate development without “sacrificing commercial advantage or the United States’ lead in AI.” Anthropic has already committed to giving independent evaluators access comparable to that held by employees so they can examine safety procedures and report serious incidents.

The second stage would have major artificial intelligence companies in democratic countries establish shared safety standards. The final stage would require coordination between democratic governments and authoritarian regimes, which is also the part most vulnerable to secrecy, cheating, and strategic distrust.

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Elon Musk supported beginning with competitive oversight, writing, “Dario is right that there should be some oversight.” He added, “Peer review of AI by competitors is the right way to start this off.”

Musk had frequently criticized Anthropic before SpaceX reached a major computing agreement with the company in May. Under the reported arrangement, Anthropic will pay SpaceX $1.25 billion each month through May 2029, and Musk later wrote, “Everyone I met was highly competent and cared a great deal about doing the right thing. No one set off my evil detector.”

Meta artificial intelligence chief Alexandr Wang has not directly addressed Amodei’s essay, though he said Meta Superintelligence Labs is “rapidly scaling up the share of our efforts that goes into alignment as our models become more powerful.” Wang added, “We do believe alignment can be the gating factor for scaling as we get closer to the frontier.”

Former Trump artificial intelligence and crypto czar David Sacks offered a sharper response, saying that if OpenAI and Anthropic believe their models are “scary enough” to justify restraint, he supports their “decision to be responsible.” However, he told them to “stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission,” arguing that reliability also protects the companies from enormous legal exposure.

“So go ahead and pace the frontier,” Sacks wrote. “You are the ones setting it. The easiest way not to build superintelligence is for you to agree not to build it. Demanding your preferred regulatory framework as the price of that will look like blackmail of the public and the political system. So just do it.”

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