Why China Isn't Getting Existential About A.I.

China's fears about the technology are increasingly distinct from those of the U.S. What does that mean for international coöperation? On Sunday, China's Minister of State Security published an article in a state-run magazine that warned about artificial intelligence posing a threat to the rule of the Chinese Communist Party (C.C.P.). This coincided with increasing concern among Americans that A.I. could pose existential risks to humanity, and rising calls for Washington to regulate it. Many of those pushing for regulation work at leading A.I. companies such as Anthropic and OpenAI, and they have received support from a broad ideological coalition on Capitol Hill. But there remains little appetite for regulation in the White House; President Trump has said that the United States must accelerate A.I. development to outpace China. I recently spoke by phone with Kyle Chan, a fellow at the Brookings Institution who focusses on Chinese technology policy.