'Silent Cold War': Why calls to slow AI have sparked new US–China frontier

'Silent Cold War': Why calls to slow AI have sparked new US-China frontier Share'Silent Cold War': Why calls to slow AI have sparked new US-China frontier on social media China has warned against "fear-mongering" after the CEO of a top artificial intelligence (AI) company in the United States sounded the alarm against AI advancement and called for restrictions on the sale of AI chips to China. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Saturday called for the development of the most powerful AI systems to be slowed down, warning that they could soon pose potentially catastrophic risks to humanity itself. The dispute comes as Washington and Beijing compete over increasingly capable AI models, with US President Donald Trump declaring, "Whoever wins AI wins." So, what has got AI giants worried, why is China being seen as a threat? Why are AI tech giants raising the alarm?