In an era when artificial intelligence is advancing faster than the frameworks meant to govern it, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has reached back to the Cold War for a model of restraint — proposing that the United States and China negotiate mutual limits on AI development the way Washington and Moscow once negotiated nuclear arsenals. Speaking on CBS in September 2026, Amodei argued that two rival powers, however opposed, can share a common interest in preventing catastrophe. The proposal has fractured the technology world along familiar fault lines: those who see existential risk requiring coll