'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?

The former chairman of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party warned about a fast-moving software and technology race between the United States and China, arguing the weaponization of supply chains could force a showdown between the free world and its totalitarian rivals. Former Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., told Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier about a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) op-ed he wrote Sunday, outlining his concerns about China's growing technological dominance. "On the modern battlefield, we need to not only know our adversary but know ourselves and map our supply chain in great detail," he said Monday on "Special Report." Gallagher, the head of defense for Palantir Technologies, a Denver-based software company, highlighted how China could use its manufactured port cranes across the world to disrupt international commerce if the United States were to get into a conflict with China over Taiwan. "The Biden administration recently warned that Chinese-made port cranes could be'controlled... from remote locations.' European companies found that Chinese groups may have gained access to the systems that control cargo ships. Billions of endpoints connect to the internet, including sensors and devices that physically interact with critical infrastructure. Anyone with control over a portion of the technology stack such as semiconductors, cellular modules, or hardware devices, can use it to snoop, incapacitate or kill," he wrote in the WSJ.