# US-China AI race: Is the world becoming more dangerous or safer?

https://mins.news/en/item/73624

- BBC Chinese, 2026-09-25 08:12 UTC
- Tech
- Original: https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/articles/cwx2zmzd63gxo/trad?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

> A leading AI safety researcher at Anthropic warns that AI is advancing at an astonishing pace and may carry a 10% chance of causing human extinction within the next decade. In the United States, calls for coordinated action and safeguards clash with Donald Trump's concern that slowing development could surrender leadership to rivals. Chinese services including DeepSeek and Moonshot suggest the country's competitors may be matching frontier US labs in capability.

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