The next six months will be crucial in determining how the West and China cooperate on regulating the fast-growing technology.
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo (left) and the U.K's Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, Michelle Donelan (center), listen as Wu Zhaohui, Vice Minister of Science and Technology for China, speaks during the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes, England, November 1, 2023. Credit: Press Association via AP Images
Much has been written over the past six months about how Beijing is grappling with the regulation of generative artificial intelligence (AI), in the process corralling large language models (LLMs) and the platforms that use them via chatbots. In this endeavor, Beijing has arguably been out in front of other governments, particularly the U.S., by building a set of tools rather than trying to develop sweeping regulation such as the European Union’s AI Act.
Chinese firms are clearly among the global leaders in the generative AI space, with major tech platform companies like Alibaba and Baidu, telecoms giant Huawei, and social media companies like Tencent and Bytedance all investing heavily in the technology. Along with leading generative AI companies in the U.S., these Chinese firms are continuing to develop and iterate generative AI models. They are also participating in a robust regulatory dialogue with the likes of the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), which has beco
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