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The article centers on geopolitical tensions and strategic competition regarding AI development between the US and China, framing it as a "Silent Cold War." It critically examines the conflict between corporate financial incentives to accelerate model training and emerging calls for regulatory slowdowns or safety pauses. This dynamic highlights how national security concerns are increasingly intersecting with the core trajectory of artificial intelligence research and deployment.

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‘Silent Cold War’: Why calls to slow AI have sparked new US–China frontier

AI Now InstituteSeptember 14, 20261 min read

Calls by technology leaders to slow AI’s development raise questions about their ability and willingness to control the technology, according to Aya Ibrahim, Senior Economic and National Security Fellow at the AI Now Institute. The post ‘Silent Cold War’: Why calls to slow AI have sparked new US–China frontier appeared first on AI Now Institute.

Calls by technology leaders to slow AI’s development raise questions about their ability and willingness to control the technology, according to Aya Ibrahim, a senior visiting fellow at the AI Now Institute.

Ibrahim told Al Jazeera that the warnings come as companies face enormous financial pressure to develop increasingly powerful AI systems.

“There is a lot of money that is dependent on them getting this out and, frankly, getting it right,” she said, adding that there are “increasing doubts about their ability to do either”.

She also questioned the framing of AI development as a race, saying it could encourage companies to develop the technology as quickly as possible while overlooking the consequences.

“The race narrative is inherently problematic because in many ways, you’re setting us up for a race to the bottom,” Ibrahim said.

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