{"id":25000,"date":"2026-09-19T11:37:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T09:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/19\/china-bogeyman-looms-large-over-american-firms-ai-doomsday-scenario\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T11:37:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T09:37:38","slug":"china-bogeyman-looms-large-over-american-firms-ai-doomsday-scenario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/19\/china-bogeyman-looms-large-over-american-firms-ai-doomsday-scenario\/","title":{"rendered":"China bogeyman looms large over American firms\u2019 AI doomsday scenario"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon Valley China hawks, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei among them, fear the country surpassing US\u2019s AI lead as much as superintelligence destroying humanity<\/p>\n<p>When reporters asked Donald Trump this week if he supported calls to slow down the development of artificial intelligence out of growing fears for cybersecurity, public safety and<strong> <\/strong>the fate of humanity, he said no. His argument: China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re leading China in AI,\u201d Trump said. \u201cWe\u2019re the most sophisticated country in the world, and frankly, I want to \u2060keep it that way, because whoever wins AI, wins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2026\/sep\/19\/china-ai-foreign-policy-dario-amodei\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7fe76523483afb288dbc972157cf1bfb4dc91aa4\/0_5_2400_1919\/master\/2400.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d522513c02fa30cd250a9654140aaae2\" title=\"China bogeyman looms large over American firms\u2019 AI doomsday scenario\" \/>Silicon Valley China hawks, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei among them, fear the country surpassing US\u2019s AI lead as much as superintelligence destroying humanity<br \/>\nWhen reporters asked Donald Trump this week if he supported calls to slow down the development of artificial intelligence out of growing fears for cybersecurity, public safety and the fate of humanity, he said no. His argument: China.<br \/>\n\u201cWe\u2019re leading China in AI,\u201d Trump said. \u201cWe\u2019re the most sophisticated country in the world, and frankly, I want to \u2060keep it that way, because whoever wins AI, wins.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon Valley China hawks, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei among them, fear the country surpassing US\u2019s AI lead as much as superintelligence destroying humanity When reporters asked Donald Trump this week if he supported calls to slow down the development of artificial intelligence out of growing fears for cybersecurity, public safety and the fate of humanity, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/19\/china-bogeyman-looms-large-over-american-firms-ai-doomsday-scenario\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">China bogeyman looms large over American firms\u2019 AI doomsday scenario<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25000"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}