{"id":457669,"date":"2026-02-04T10:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T10:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/457669\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T10:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T10:54:11","slug":"chinese-ai-firms-defend-safety-practices-push-back-on-western-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/457669\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese AI firms defend safety practices, push back on Western criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Chinese companies are mitigating the risks of artificial intelligence in their own way and should not be judged through a Western lens, according to Chinese industry insiders.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, concerns about the risks of Chinese models held back some global users from adopting them, with high-profile <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/tech-war\/article\/3340422\/deepseek-year-how-little-known-chinese-start-sparked-global-ai-arms-race?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DeepSeek<\/a> in particular banned or restricted in more than 10 countries, including the US, Italy and India.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In a podcast released on Sunday, former DeepSeek researcher Tu Jinhao said an obsession with catching up with the US had overshadowed domestic work on AI safety.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cAll the computational resources are being spent training AI models, with little left to spend on safety work,\u201d said Tu, who was still in high school when he joined the Hangzhou start-up. DeepSeek did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese companies are mitigating the risks of artificial intelligence in their own way and should not be judged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,160601,254,255,64,63,3686,2297,512,235674,3693,28300,235673,1209,2328,204670,4933,105,11804,2489],"class_list":["post-457669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-ai-safety","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-beijing","tag-bytedance","tag-china","tag-chinese-ai-companies","tag-chinese-companies","tag-deepseek","tag-future-of-life-institute","tag-india","tag-italy","tag-lunar-new-year","tag-shanghai","tag-technology","tag-tokyo","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}