China Pushes Back After AI Leaders Back Amodei's Call to Slow Frontier Models

China pushed back against a U.S.-led call to slow frontier AI development after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei won support from rival AI leaders for a plan to pace the most advanced models. The dispute has turned a safety debate about autonomous agents, model evaluation and recursive self-improvement into a geopolitical argument over whether caution would also preserve U.S. leverage over China.