While Chinese government officials criticised calls for an AI slowdown led by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, China’s cybersecurity administration said models were increasingly demonstrating “recursive self-improvement”. A new AI safety framework published by the country’s Cybersecurity Standardisation Technical Committee (CSTC) on 14 September called for “attention and vigilance” on the issue that AI could “exceed human anticipation.”
The annual AI Safety Governance Framework said: “AI has demonstrated a self-accelerating trend of model and algorithm autonomous learning, optimization, and recursive self-improvement.”
The warning is similar to Amodei’s concerns about rapid AI development and contrasts with Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Guo Jiakun's statement that Amodei’s call for an AI slowdown was “fear-mongering, confrontation and vicious competition” that would only slow work on global AI governance.