AI is not a “monopoly of great powers” and the US should work with China to manage risk to create a non-discriminatory development environment, China’s top newspaper, the People’s Daily, said in a commentary on Wednesday.
The US and China are the two major driving forces of frontier AI development and the technology’s global adoption. Both superpowers have been at loggerheads over AI policies and industry practices, with these issues slated to feature prominently in bilateral talks next week. AI is a new domain for human development and China encourages open-source and open practices, providing companies, including from the US, access to open-source models, the ruling Communist Party’s official People’s Daily wrote in a commentary.
The White House earlier this year accused China of stealing US artificial intelligence labs’ intellectual property on an industrial scale.
“Artificial intelligence is a new domain for human development, not a monopoly of great powers, and must not become an arena for zero-sum competition,” said the commentary published under the pen name “Zhong Sheng”, meaning “Voice of China” and often used to give views on foreign policy. “According to US logic, when American enterprises use distillation it is an ‘industry standard practice,’ while when Chinese enterprises apply it, it constitutes an ‘attack. This is naked double standards,” the paper said.
