President Xi Jinping and other top Chinese officials agreed in a meeting on the need to better control artificial intelligence, state media reported on Wednesday.
They agreed, during a Chinese Communist Party summit, to “improve network data monitoring and artificial intelligence,” according to the same sources.
“We must prepare for the worst possible eventualities and scenarios and be prepared to withstand strong winds, turbid waters and even dangerous storms,” the officials said after the meeting, according to the report by state news agency Xinhua.
Chinese authorities announced in April that they would impose a “security inspection” on Chinese-developed AI-based tools like ChatGPT.
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They submitted a draft regulation aimed at ensuring “the healthy development and standard application of generative artificial intelligence technology.”
The Cyberspace Administration of China has opened the draft regulations for public comment, which in China’s highly centralized political system are likely to take effect.
The text was released as many Chinese technology companies such as Baidu, Alibaba, JD.com, Netease or ByteDance (TikTok’s parent company) have said in recent weeks that they are working on their own conversational robot model, hoping to build on the success of the American pioneer ChatGPT.
China has announced ambitious plans to become a world leader in the artificial intelligence sector by 2030, and consultancy McKinsey estimates that the sector could contribute around $600 billion to China’s GDP by then.
Source: BFM TV
