China criticized dire warnings about AI’s risks after leading US technology executives backed calls to slow the development of advanced models and warned that a Chinese advantage could threaten American national security.Countries should promote “open, inclusive, universally beneficial and ethical” AI development, Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said at a regular briefing in Beijing on Monday.“Fearmongering, confrontation and vicious competition will only disrupt the process of global AI governance and serve the interests of no one,” he said in response to a question on calls from US executives to slow frontier development and suggestions that a Chinese advantage would pose…