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 2. Artificial Intelligence

China Is Worried AI Threatens Party Rule--and Is Trying to Tame It

Beijing is enforcing tough rules to ensure chatbots don't misbehave,
while hoping its models stay competitive with the U.S.

By

Stu Woo

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A woman looking up while holding a laptop in front of a poster of the
Great Wall of China.An attendee at an AI conference in Shanghai in
2023. wang zhao/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

Concerned that artificial intelligence could threaten Communist Party
rule, Beijing is taking extraordinary steps to keep it under control.

Although China's government sees AI as crucial to the country's
economic and military future, regulations and recent purges of online
content show it also fears AI could destabilize society. Chatbots
pose a particular problem: Their ability to think for themselves
could generate responses that spur people to question party rule.

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