{"id":4543,"date":"2023-11-08T03:48:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T08:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/chinas-xi-urges-countries-unite-in-tackling-ai-challenges-but-makes-no-mention-of-internet-controls\/08\/11\/2023\/"},"modified":"2023-11-08T03:48:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T08:48:41","slug":"chinas-xi-urges-countries-unite-in-tackling-ai-challenges-but-makes-no-mention-of-internet-controls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/chinas-xi-urges-countries-unite-in-tackling-ai-challenges-but-makes-no-mention-of-internet-controls\/08\/11\/2023\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Xi urges countries unite in tackling AI challenges but makes no mention of internet controls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>BEIJING (AP) \u2014 Chinese <button class=\"caas-xray-inline caas-xray-entity caas-xray-pill\" data-ylk=\"cid:Xi_Jinping;pos:1;elmt:wiki;sec:pill-inline-entity;elm:pill-inline-text;itc:1;cat:OfficeHolder;\" data-entity-id=\"Xi_Jinping\">President Xi Jinping<\/button> said Wednesday that potential <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/artificial-intelligence\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:risks associated with artificial intelligence;elm:context_link;itc:0\" class=\"link \">risks associated with artificial intelligence<\/a> are challenges that countries should deal with together, remarks that come against the backdrop of China\u2019s rigid control of free speech on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, China has also maximized the internet\u2019s economic benefits and social media\u2019s propaganda contributions to the ruling Communist Party\u2019s authoritarian agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Xi\u2019s prerecorded speech was broadcast at the opening of the World Internet Conference Summit in the eastern city of Wuzhen.<\/p>\n<p>He called for common security in cyberspace instead of confrontation. He said China would work with other countries to address risks brought by the development of AI and expressed his objections to \u201ccyberspace hegemony.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>China is ready to \u201cpromote the safe development of AI,\u201d he said, with the implementation of the Global AI Governance Initiative, a proposal launched by the Chinese government last month calling for an open and fair environment for AI development.<\/p>\n<p>Li Shulei, director of the Communist Party\u2019s publicity department, echoed Xi\u2019s remarks at the conference, saying China would work with other countries to \u201cimprove the safety, reliability, controllability and fairness of artificial intelligence technology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The conference was first launched as an annual event in 2014 by the Chinese government to discuss internet development. China blocks most overseas news and social media sites, but lifts them in the Wuzhen area for the duration of the conference.<\/p>\n<p>As recently as June, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/technology-business-china-united-states-hacking-ffa2120239eb687ce1979bf9599dfea5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chinese state-backed hackers foiled Microsoft\u2019s cloud-based security;elm:context_link;itc:0\" class=\"link \">Chinese state-backed hackers foiled Microsoft\u2019s cloud-based security<\/a> in breaching the email accounts of officials at multiple U.S. agencies that deal with China ahead of Secretary of State Antony Blinken\u2019s trip to Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>The surgical, targeted espionage accessed the email of a small number of individuals at an unspecified number of U.S. agencies and was discovered in mid-June by the State Department, U.S. officials said. They said none of the breached systems were classified, nor was any of the stolen data.<\/p>\n<p>The hacked officials included Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, whose agency imposed export controls that have stung multiple Chinese companies.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2020, the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/technology-media-social-media-crime-china-abe63876eedc5a95c90a37ca88024809\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Justice Department has charged five Chinese citizens with hacks;elm:context_link;itc:0\" class=\"link \">Justice Department has charged five Chinese citizens with hacks<\/a> targeting more than 100 companies and institutions in the United States and abroad, including social media and video game companies as well as universities and telecommunications providers<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/chinas-xi-urges-countries-unite-065825924.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING (AP) &mdash; Chinese President Xi Jinping said Wednesday that potential risks associated with artificial intelligence are challenges that countries should deal<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/chinas-xi-urges-countries-unite-in-tackling-ai-challenges-but-makes-no-mention-of-internet-controls\/08\/11\/2023\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}