China's Foreign Ministry criticizes warnings about AI risks, saying "fearmongering, confrontation, and vicious competition ... serve the interests of no one" (Bloomberg)

China's Foreign Ministry has responded to warnings about the risks of artificial intelligence, stating that fearmongering and confrontation serve no one's interests. This comes after US technology executives called for a slowdown in AI development due to concerns about its rapid deployment.

US President Donald Trump has also weighed in on the issue, dismissing warnings about AI risks during a visit to Ireland. He argued that critics were raising alarms about scenarios that lacked substance and emphasized the importance of the US leading China in AI development.

Some AI researchers, however, have expressed genuine concerns about the risks of AI. According to the GBC Ghana report, a researcher who resigned from Anthropic, Jacob Coxon, warned that a failure to manage AI development could lead to catastrophic outcomes, and supported calls for a developmental pause with international coordination, including with Beijing.

Brief written by urgent.news from Techmeme, GBC Ghana — 2 reports on this story. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.