China's Foreign Ministry responded to AI CEOs' call for the development of the technology to be slowed down. "Fear-mongering, confrontation, competition will just disrupt [the] process of global AI governance," Guo Jiakun, a spokesperson for China's Foreign Ministry, said on Monday via an English translation published by Reuters. The CEOs' warning caused AI stocks to move lower and a rebuke from U.S. President Donald Trump, who said the U.S. needed to maintain its edge over China. Aly Song | Reuters BEIJING — China on Monday pushed back on calls by U.S. AI executives for companies to slow down the development…