China state media slams Anthropic’s AI slowdown call as ‘Cold War’ strategy

Dario Amodei has published an essay calling for a slower pace of frontier AI development, according to a report on thenews.com.pk. The report, headlined 'China state media slams Anthropic's AI slowdown call as Cold War strategy,' describes mixed international responses to the essay. Anthropic is named in the headline as the company associated with the slowdown call. The excerpt does not provide a country-by-country breakdown of those responses.

The report states that Sam Altman and Elon Musk backed Amodei's position, and that President Trump dismissed the calls. Amodei's essay proposed a three-step framework, one element of which was third-party reviewers, according to the report. The excerpt does not specify when Altman or Musk expressed support, or in what form. It also does not name the other elements of the three-step framework, or say who would conduct the third-party reviews.

The excerpt does not give the date of Amodei's essay. It frames the essay as the subject of international responses rather than as a domestic legislative proposal, and it does not state what, if anything, has changed in AI development practices as a result of the essay or the responses to it.