{"id":597,"date":"2023-04-30T09:04:02","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T09:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thethinkingmachine.uk\/?p=597"},"modified":"2023-04-30T09:13:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T09:13:21","slug":"chinas-leadership-wants-to-embrace-ai-advances-but-also-control-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thethinkingmachine.uk\/?p=597","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s leadership wants to embrace AI advances but also control risks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As Alibaba\u2019s Tongyi Qianwen (famous for E-commerce), Baidu\u2019s Ernie Bot (famous for search engines), NetEase (famous for video gaming) and SenseTime (well known AI developer) and Spark Desk (iFlyTek) launched ChatGPT-like services, the Cyberspace Administration of China, the internet watchdog, earlier this month drafted new rules following concerns about the potential risks from artificial general intelligence (AGI) and the new rules demand that generative AI developers pass over their products to the Cyberspace Administration of China, with details of security protocols, and which will then be subject to security assessment before being authorised for release to the public. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>State media outlet Xinhua in April 2023 stated that at the Politburo\u2019s quarterly meeting on China\u2019s social and economic development, it was concluded that &#8220;China must &#8230; pay attention to the development of AGI, create an ecosystem for innovation but at the same time take risk prevention into account\u201d and  must ensure that their services do not spread information that \u201charms national security\u201d or \u201csubverts state regime\u201d and must \u201cmaintain a \u2018clean and clear\u2019 online environment\u201d, nor promote regime subversion, violence or pornography or take actions which disrupt the economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr You Chuanman, director of the IIA Centre for Regulation and Global Governance with the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen Campus is quoted as saying \u201cThe regulators also face social and institutional pressures, and they need to show that they are carrying out responsive regulation on all these emerging issues &#8230;..They have to take action one way or another, whether it\u2019s welcomed by the market or not.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China\u2019s internet regulator has already published regulations trying to restrict AI-generated content to within official Chinese narratives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Alibaba\u2019s Tongyi Qianwen (famous for E-commerce), Baidu\u2019s Ernie Bot (famous for search engines), NetEase (famous for video gaming) and &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-legislative","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thethinkingmachine.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thethinkingmachine.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thethinkingmachine.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thethinkingmachine.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thethinkingmachine.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thethinkingmachine.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":598,"href":"https:\/\/thethinkingmachine.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thethinkingmachine.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thethinkingmachine.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thethinkingmachine.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thethinkingmachine.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}