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China bogeyman looms large over American firms’ AI doomsday scenario
Publisher description: Silicon Valley China hawks, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei among them, fear the country surpassing US’s AI lead as much as superintelligence destroying humanity
The Guardian | Sep 19, 2026 | Nick Robins-Early
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His argument: China. “We’re leading China in AI,” Trump said. “We’re the most sophisticated country in the world, and frankly, I want to keep it that way, because whoever wins AI, wins. ”Trump was echoing a message the AI industry has put out for years. The movement tends to overlap with AI safety advocates who worry about the longterm, existential risks of the technology. Leopold Aschenbrenner, a 25-year-old former OpenAI researcher, founder of an influential AI hedge fund, and husband to Amodei’s chief of staff, called for a government-led effort to reach super-intelligent AI before China in a 165-page paper.
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