China appears ten times in an essay supposedly about saving humanity from AI. Dario’s essay is hilarious because “AI safety” keeps collapsing into one very specific fear: China catching up. Slow the frontier — but slow China more. Cooperate globally — but preserve the U.S. lead. Build safety rules — but make sure they widen America’s advantage. He even says the quiet part out loud: the goal is to “slow China’s progress” and protect the lead of the U.S. and its allies. At some point, this reads less like an AI safety essay than a geopolitical anxiety attack with footnotes. In the end, it is American primacy dressed up as civilizational stewardship. The apocalypse is apparently manageable as long as America owns it.