--- title: Bessent says AI alarmism without solutions is not leadership description: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Axios that AI industry leaders warning of existential risks without offering solutions are not demonstrating... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/bessent-says-ai-alarmism-without-solutions-is-not-leadership-plo8wwf1f twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Bessent says AI alarmism without solutions is not leadership | daily.dev og:description: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Axios that AI industry leaders warning of existential risks without offering solutions are not demonstrating... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/bessent-says-ai-alarmism-without-solutions-is-not-leadership-plo8wwf1f og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/PLo8wwf1F.png og:image:alt: Bessent says AI alarmism without solutions is not leadership og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Bessent says AI alarmism without solutions is not leadership **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 2 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Axios that AI industry leaders warning of existential risks without offering solutions are not demonstrating leadership, placing responsibility for managing AI risk on the labs themselves. His comments follow calls from Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Bill Gates to slow or address risks of advanced AI models. Bessent emphasized the US must not lose its AI lead to China, noting Chinese models may already be 80-90% as capable as US ones but lack guardrails. Despite this competitive stance, the US reportedly plans to propose a bilateral warning system with China for serious AI incidents, following talks between Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, though Trump has separately rejected a broader AI safety deal with China. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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