Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Thursday warned that either the United States or China will prevail in the artificial intelligence race – and that our tech industry needs to keep pushing forward to avoid the latter.

“My general bias on AI is it is dangerous, there are positive and negative consequences, and either we win or China will win,” Karp told CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street.”

“We’re in an arms race,” he added. 3

His warning came in response to questions about a GOP proposal to block states from regulating artificial intelligence for 10 years – which has taken heat from other leaders in the tech industry.

“A 10-year moratorium is far too blunt an instrument. AI is advancing too head-spinningly fast,” Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wrote in an op-ed for The New York Times.

“Without a cl

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