China, Michael Burry, and Yann LeCun reject OpenAI and Anthropic calls to slow AI development; LeCun calls warnings ‘fake’ - Tech Startups
China, Michael Burry, and Yann LeCun reject OpenAI and Anthropic calls to slow AI development; LeCun calls warnings ‘fake’ - Tech Startups
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China, Michael Burry, and Yann LeCun reject OpenAI and Anthropic calls to slow AI development; LeCun calls warnings ‘fake’
Daniel Levi
Posted On September 14, 2026
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China has rejected calls from some of America’s most prominent AI executives to slow the development of advanced artificial intelligence, putting Beijing on the same side of a widening debate as investor Michael Burry and former Meta AI chief Yann LeCun.
The unusual alignment comes as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and Elon Musk raise alarms about the risks posed by increasingly capable AI systems. Their warnings have triggered a fierce counterargument: slowing AI could give competitors an advantage, protect today’s market leaders, or both.
“Fear mongering, confrontation, competition will just disrupt [the] process of global AI governance,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said Monday, according to an English translation published by Reuters.
Guo was responding to a question about calls from U.S. AI executives for the industry to slow down amid concerns over where the technology is heading, CNBC
reported
.
The dispute intensified after Amodei appeared on CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday and argued for greater public oversight of AI.
“The government and the public needs to have a stake,” Amodei said, adding that he wants the entire AI industry regulated.
The news comes just a week after
two Anthropic researchers warned that artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity with