China established its “Global Artificial Intelligence Governance Initiative,” a move considered to be an affront to U.S. efforts to protect its leadership in the field.
According to state-run media, “[T]he U.S. intensified unilateral restrictions over normal global cooperation in A.I. and other technologies. Western countries have also been seeking to set rules for A.I., which experts say is mostly aimed at protecting their own interests.”
The announcement was made at the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) forum, where Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Taliban leadership were present.
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray previously said he was “deeply concerned” about China’s AI development.
He claimed Chinese initiatives were “not constrained by the rule of law.”
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) similarly expressed concerns that U.S. opposition entities are “seeking to undermine trust in our government institutions, social cohesion, and democratic processes are using AI to create more believable mis-, dis-, and malinformation campaigns.”
According to The Center for European Policy Analysis, AI may expose government threats or narratives.
“Authoritarians rely on narrative homogeneity as a tool for control, viewing any deviation as a potential threat,” the group stated. “Generative AI represents a threat to this narrative homogeneity. Authoritarians must contend with a plethora of news, media, and cultural productions that will challenge their accepted version of reality.”
Reporting from Breitbart:
The thought of China’s gruesome authoritarian government gaining control of A.I. technology has been a nightmare plaguing the free world for most of the new century. Among the earliest concerns was that China’s lack of regard for privacy — for either its own subjects or foreign citizens — would allow it to compile gigantic databases to feed growing A.I. programs, leaping ahead of American and European companies bound by data privacy rules.
