{"id":40055,"date":"2026-05-15T13:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T13:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/40055\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T13:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T13:17:11","slug":"ai-anthropics-plea-for-us-to-grow-its-ai-edge-over-china-is-irresponsible-analysts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/40055\/","title":{"rendered":"AI | Anthropic\u2019s plea for US to grow its AI edge over China is \u2018irresponsible\u2019: analysts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Anthropic has urged the US to widen its edge over China in artificial intelligence capability to \u201cavoid authoritarian AI leadership\u201d, a warning which is being criticised by some industry experts as \u201cirresponsible\u201d and self-serving.<\/p>\n<p>In a blog post published on Thursday as the first day of the high-stakes <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/sc.mp\/1rrsd?utm_source=copy-link&amp;utm_campaign=3353608&amp;utm_medium=share_widget\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\">summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump<\/a> wrapped up in Beijing, the American AI firm urged the US and its allies to tighten export controls and curb the so-called distillation attacks originating in China \u2013 a technique where smaller models are trained using the outputs of larger, more advanced systems.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Anthropic said that locking in a 12-to-24-month lead in frontier capabilities by 2028 would be \u201cenormously advantageous\u201d. This gap would allow the US to increase its engagement with AI experts in China in areas such as AI safety and governance, according to Anthropic.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The prospect of the Communist Party leading in frontier AI is \u201camong the greatest threats\u201d to the future of humanity, \u201cenabling repression at a scale that humans alone could not achieve\u201d, Anthropic wrote.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Anthropic, developer of the cutting-edge Claude models, is known to be a vocal critic of China\u2019s AI advancement and a strong advocate for US chip export control measures.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">While the company\u2019s latest remarks raise legitimate concerns about misuse that merits serious engagement, its \u201carms-race framing pushes us in the wrong direction at exactly the wrong moment\u201d, said Alvin Wang Graylin, Digital Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-centered Artificial Intelligence and senior fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthropic has urged the US to widen its edge over China in artificial intelligence capability to \u201cavoid authoritarian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[24,4989,24557,53,24555,2699,2478,24556,387,8243,6010,9603,157,24554,156],"class_list":["post-40055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anthropic","tag-ai","tag-ai-safety","tag-alvin-wang-graylin","tag-anthropic","tag-asia-society-policy-institute","tag-beijing","tag-bloomberg","tag-brookings-institution","tag-china","tag-cnbc","tag-deepseek","tag-moonshot-ai","tag-openai","tag-stanford-institute-for-human-centered-artificial-intelligence","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}