Amodei asked the world to pace AI for safety — then demanded China’s chips be cut off in the same essay. Beijing called it a Cold War playbook. And the dilemma Amodei himself admits reveals the structural tragedy of the whole race.
US intelligence just named six Chinese AI firms for industrial-scale distillation, 16 days before the summit. watchchina.ai read all 3,585 words — including the fact that “theft” appears exactly zero times. What the document says, and what it pointedly doesn’t.
“Now or never.” The US and China are preparing their first-ever AI safety talks — with a proposal that both nations’ labs police themselves on AI cyberattacks. The first real substance before the summit, and what it reveals.
Beijing’s tech minister flew to a G20 meeting on US soil to call for AI “cooperation, not rivalry” — three weeks before the summit. The message is aimed at the watching world. And the gap between the words and China’s own hardening is the real story.