# China dismisses AI ‘fearmongering’ as spy chief warns of threat to Communist party rule

> Beijing has pushed back hard against warnings from American AI leaders, dismissing them as fearmongering designed to protect a US advantage. The response follows Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei's call for the United States to slow China's progress in AI, and China's foreign ministry rejected the risk narrative outright. The moment is layered, because at the same time a Chinese spy chief reportedly warned that AI itself could pose a threat to Communist party rule. That combination captures Beijing's balancing act: reject foreign safety arguments as a competitive ploy, while quietly treating the technology as a domestic control risk of its own. The exchange shows how thoroughly AI safety has become entangled with geopolitics. Calls to pace the frontier can read as principled caution in one capital and as protectionism in another, and China's answer makes clear it will not accept limits framed by its rivals. As US and Chinese officials prepare to meet, the gap between the two narratives is only widening.

_Section: [Daily AI Updates](https://www.wortins.com/daily-ai) · Source: The Guardian · Published Tuesday, September 15, 2026_

## Wortins' read

Beijing has pushed back hard against warnings from American AI leaders, dismissing them as fearmongering designed to protect a US advantage. The response follows Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei's call for the United States to slow China's progress in AI, and China's foreign ministry rejected the risk narrative outright. The moment is layered, because at the same time a Chinese spy chief reportedly warned that AI itself could pose a threat to Communist party rule. That combination captures Beijing's balancing act: reject foreign safety arguments as a competitive ploy, while quietly treating the technology as a domestic control risk of its own. The exchange shows how thoroughly AI safety has become entangled with geopolitics. Calls to pace the frontier can read as principled caution in one capital and as protectionism in another, and China's answer makes clear it will not accept limits framed by its rivals. As US and Chinese officials prepare to meet, the gap between the two narratives is only widening.

## Source

[Read the full story at The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/14/china-dismisses-ai-fearmongering-as-spy-chief-warns-of-threat-to-communist-party-rule)

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