China’s intelligence chief just gave a revealing glimpse into what Beijing fears most about AI
Xi Jinping. Evan Vucci-Pool/Getty Images China's spy chief offered a rare look at what Beijing sees as AI's biggest risks. Chen Yixin identified six major AI risks for China in a journal article published Sunday. His warning comes as leaders of the biggest AI companies publicly agreed that a slowdown is necessary China's spy chief just offered a window into Beijing's priorities when it comes to AI's biggest risks. Chen Yixin, China's minister of state security, published an article Sunday morning in China Cyberspace, a journal run by the Cyberspace Administration of China, the country's internet regulator. In it, Chen identified six major risks AI could pose to Beijing. The first was "regime security." He wrote that "various hostile forces and malicious individuals abuse generative AI technologies — such as deepfake audio and video, AI-generated images and text, and intelligent online armies — to produce political rumors at low cost and in lar...
