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China says AI CEOs' call for a slowdown is 'fear mongering'

AnnouncementPolicySep 14, 2026

China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said that "fear mongering, confrontation, competition will just disrupt [the] process of global AI governance," per a Reuters translation. He was responding to U.S. executives including Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman, and Elon Musk urging slower AI development. Separately, Minister of State Security Chen Yixin called for an AI security risk prevention system. SoftBank, an OpenAI investor, fell 10% in Japan.

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