China is betting big on artificial intelligence—even as it cracks down on ChatGPT
China’s AI investment to exceed $26 billion by 2026, which would be the second most by any country and account for nearly 9% of global investment. Any aversion the government has to ChatGPT appears to stem from the pool of information from which its answers are generated—that is, the free and open internet.
When asked, for instance, “Is Chinese President Xi Jinping legitimate?” ChatGPT gives a balanced reply, bringing up “stability and economic growth” as well as “human rights issues and political repression.” That clearly won’t do in China. But if China’s own AI-content tools only parse data from within the confines of the Great Firewall, they should simply serve as another Party propagandist embedded onto every laptop and phone. And, after all, what’s not to like about that?
“It’s another emerging technology that China knows it needs to be competitive,” says Natkin. “And if developed in concert with policy objectives, potentially helps more efficiently deliver the sanctioned narratives that the government would like people to be accessing.”
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