The Chinese government has announced that it will conduct a “safety assessment” of artificial intelligence (AI) programs amid an attempt by Chinese Internet giants to design tools similar to ChatGPT. The Chinese regime wants to regulate so-called generative artificial intelligence, which is booming, and before going on sale, products using this technology will have to “undergo a safety inspection.” AI-generated content must “reflect fundamental socialist values and not include content related to the subversion of state power.” China aims to become a world leader in artificial intelligence by 2030, which means revolutionizing numerous sectors, such as the automotive industry and medicine.
Meanwhile, Chinese companies are working on developing their own AI bots to compete with ChatGPT. Baidu, Tencent, and Alibaba have been some of the first Chinese companies to position themselves in AI. The main challenge for Chinese developers in the AI race is to come up with a conversational bot that works well but does not fall outside the strict framework of allowed content.
However, there are concerns that in the future AI may replace certain professions such as journalists, computer programmers, or teachers. It is true that AI can be faster and more agile in medicine, for example, but it currently has to be supervised. In addition, AI is fed by databases and data that we can introduce, so the model is trained on the basis of these databases to ask different types of questions. Therefore, we should be careful not to fall back on AI technology one hundred percent, as this could lead to manipulation of the citizenry.