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“The Chinese government backs a state control model, which enables government censorship and mass surveillance, It also preserves stability by ensuring that the ruling Communist Party can take coercive action when it needs to.”

““How can we ensure that a Chinese open-source model would be truly clean, that it’d be truly free of CCP censorship?”

“An AI model downloaded over 3 billion times and used by U.S. firms like Airbnb and Uber is embedded with China-friendly narratives and programmed for censorship, new research shows.”

“"If we get this wrong," says Thierer, "the Chinese are there waiting….They're spending a lot of money to be the global leader….Their values will come baked into their systems: censorship, surveillance, and control."”

“Billionaire businessman Marc Andreessen argued early that the fight over what AI is allowed to say could become more consequential than the censorship battles of the social-media era and warned that China sees AI as a tool of authoritarian control.”