China Is Worried AI Threatens Party Rule

“Concerned that artificial intelligence could threaten Communist Party rule, Beijing is taking extraordinary steps to keep it under control,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Although China’s government sees AI as crucial to the country’s economic and military future, regulations and recent purges of online content show it also fears AI could destabilize society. Chatbots pose a particular problem: Their ability to think for themselves could generate responses that spur people to question party rule.”