China bogeyman looms large over American firms’ AI doomsday scenario

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Silicon Valley China hawks, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei among them, fear the country surpassing US’s AI lead as much as superintelligence destroying humanity When reporters asked Donald Trump this week if he supported calls to slow down the developmen…

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  • Reported by The Guardian and published Sat, 19 Sep 2026 10:00:45 UTC.

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