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China's ex-UK ambassador clashes with 'AI godfather' on panel

Fu Ying also expressed regret about the impact of US-China tensions on the progress of AI safety.

At the start of a panel discussion on stage with Canada's Prof Bengio in Paris, she began by thanking him for the "very, very long" document, adding that the Chinese translation stretched to around 400 pages and she hadn't finished reading it. He did however concede that "from a safety point of view", it was easier to spot issues with the viral Chinese AI assistant DeepSeek, which was built using open source architecture, than ChatGPT, whose code has not been shared by its creator OpenAI. Matt Clifford, who wrote the UK's AI Action Plan which the government has accepted in full, warned that the tech would be "more radical" than when typing was replaced with word processing, as computers first entered the workplace.

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