{"id":143205,"date":"2026-08-18T04:34:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T04:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/143205\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T04:34:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T04:34:19","slug":"why-is-chinese-state-media-telling-people-to-stop-using-english-ai-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/143205\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Chinese state media telling people to stop using English AI terms?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China\u2019s state media has called for English-language terms related to artificial intelligence (AI) to be dropped in favour of standardised Chinese equivalents in a push to boost the country\u2019s \u201cdiscourse power\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">As AI technologies have rapidly spread in China, English terms have entered common speech in the country, such as \u201cagent\u201d and \u201cLLM\u201d for large language model, a commentary published by the Communist Party mouthpiece People\u2019s Daily noted earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The article argued that reliance on foreign terminology would lead to \u201ccognitive dependency\u201d and ultimately undermine the country\u2019s voice in global technology governance.<\/p>\n<p>This latest call to action follows China\u2019s <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3347887\/china-names-trillions-ai-token-after-yuan-should-us-worry-dollar?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">official designation of ciyuan<\/a> as the standard translation for \u201ctoken\u201d in March at the China Development Forum 2026. Ci means \u201cword\u201d, while yuan is often associated with fundamental elements or currency. Specifically, the yuan is the base monetary unit of China\u2019s official currency, the renminbi.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The commentary said that reliance on foreign jargon could deprive China of the authority to define key concepts, stunt the growth of original domestic theories and hinder the development of a Chinese framework for talking about technology.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">English AI terms were rarely self-explanatory to ordinary Chinese people, the commentary argued, contrasting them with earlier examples of technologies whose names were localised, such as dian nao \u2013 electric brain \u2013 for computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s state media has called for English-language terms related to artificial intelligence (AI) to be dropped in favour&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,25,387,5011,935,46168,70530,14328,415,33558,4462,70532,70531,2518,70529,4970],"class_list":["post-143205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-china","tag-china-development-forum","tag-chinese","tag-communist-party","tag-discourse-power","tag-english","tag-llm","tag-peoples-daily","tag-stanford-university","tag-tibet","tag-tibetologists","tag-token","tag-webster","tag-western"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}