{
  "id": 7299871,
  "title": "China's Foreign Ministry criticizes warnings about AI risks, saying \"fearmongering, confrontation, and vicious competition ... serve the interests of no one\" (Bloomberg)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/14/chinas-foreign-ministry-criticizes-warnings-about-ai-risks-saying",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-14T10:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
    "slug": "techmeme",
    "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-14/china-rejects-ai-fearmongering-after-amodei-urges-slowdown"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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.\n\nUS 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.\n\nSome 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.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 3,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Business Insider",
        "title": "All eyes are on what Trump and Xi will do amid grim warnings of an AI apocalypse. Here’s what they’ve said.",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/14/all-eyes-are-on-what-trump-and-xi-will-do-amid-grim-warnings-of-an-ai",
        "published": "2026-09-14T05:37:02.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "GBC Ghana",
        "title": "Trump dismisses warnings of AI risks, citing rivalry with China",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/14/trump-dismisses-warnings-of-ai-risks-citing-rivalry-with-china",
        "published": "2026-09-14T09:05:52.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}