Days after tech firms warned world about AI, China's spy agency sends a new alert

Days after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei voiced alarm over the pace of frontier AI model, China’s spy agency has issued a new alert. According to a Financial Times report, China’s Ministry of State Security has outlined threats the technology presented, including to China’s cyber defences, sensitive data and military apparatus. However, unlike US tech companies, China’s spy agency’s alert did not contain warnings that AI could cause human extinction and did not call on Chinese companies to slow their work in the area.Instead, state security minister Chen Yixin said “Hostile forces and people with ulterior motives are abusing generative AI technologies such as deepfake audio and video, AI-generated text and images, and ‘intelligent troll armies’ to cheaply and on a mass scale fabricate political rumours, disseminate harmful information and incite divisive sentiments”.“These activities constitute an attack on public opinion and cognitive warfare against China, directly threatening our political security, institutional…