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China, US should fight rogue AI risks together, despite tensions: ex-diplomat


Open-source AI models like DeepSeek allow collaborators to find security vulnerabilities more easily, Fu Ying tells Paris’ AI Action Summit.

A former senior Chinese diplomat has called for China and the US to work together to head off the risks of rapid advances in artificial intelligence(AI). But the prospect of cooperation was bleak as geopolitical tensions rippled out through the technological landscape, former Chinese foreign vice-minister Fu Ying told a closed-door AI governing panel in Paris on Monday. Other panel members included Yoshua Bengio, the Canadian computer scientist recognised as a pioneer in the field, and Alondra Nelson, a central AI policy adviser to former US president Joe Biden’s administration and the United Nations.

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