America’s AI Safety Dilemma and the Trump-Xi Summit
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay urging leading labs to slow AI capability gains, and OpenAI and Elon Musk endorsed it. Trump dismissed AI catastrophe fears as a hoax and said China benefits from the backlash. The exchange precedes Xi Jinping's Washington visit, with the administration weighing tighter controls on Chinese AI.
Why it matters: It matters for the US-China competition theme because domestic pressure to slow AI gives Washington an incentive to restrict Chinese access to chips and models rather than slow American labs.