China should play a key role in shaping the artificial intelligence guardrails needed to ensure the safety of transformative new systems. OpenAI Inc.’s Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman said.
In both China and Silicon Valley, talent and investments are flowing into AI, besides a strategic area that will help define the deepening tech rivalry between the world’s two largest economies.
Advances in the emerging technology have also highlighted tensions in how governments are seeking to regulate the sector.
One that China’s President Xi Jinping has said requires greater state oversight to mitigate national security risks.
Altman’s speech to the Beijing conference itself was notable. As the academy has strongly positioned itself in the AI sector in China.
The Chinese non-profit, thus supported by the country’s Ministry of Science and Technology and Beijing’s local government.
It has been name-checked by Microsoft Corp. President Brad Smith as one of the three frontrunners on AI innovation.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT is not currently available in China, where longstanding data and censorship regulations have long shut out services from Western tech giants like Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook.
Experts have said complex data and algorithm laws will similarly make it difficult for Western companies to make inroads in AI in the country.
China’s tech overseer signaled in draft regulation guidelines that the onus for algorithm and content demands in the country.
Furthermore, It may fall largely on platform operators. The State Council said in June. As it is planning to discuss AI-related legislation later this year.
Altman said Saturday that OpenAI planned to open-source more of its models in the future. As part of its efforts to drive AI safety, without specifying a time frame or particular model.