{"id":28346,"date":"2025-06-30T23:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T23:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/28346\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T23:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T23:22:11","slug":"my-take-chinas-rapid-adoption-of-ai-demands-greater-scrutiny-of-the-social-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/28346\/","title":{"rendered":"My Take | China\u2019s rapid adoption of AI demands greater scrutiny of the social impact"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first half of 2025 has witnessed a wave of artificial intelligence (AI) adoption in China. The speed and extent of this trend has exceeded previous technology waves, such as the internet in the late 20th century or electricity before that.<\/p>\n

Thanks to the country\u2019s computing infrastructure and fundamental models from developers like DeepSeek, Alibaba Group Holding, Tencent Holdings, ByteDance and Baidu, China is probably among the world\u2019s most aggressive nations in adopting AI. The new technology is easily available at a reasonable cost \u2013 for individuals it is usually free \u2013 and an army of agents is ready to help deploy AI for businesses. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.<\/p>\n

China is eager to roll out AI<\/a> partly because the country is engaged in fierce competition with the US, and the priority is clearly on achieving the growth and adoption of AI. China\u2019s tech giants and start-ups must relentlessly improve their AI technologies and promote their use to businesses and individuals, or they risk becoming irrelevant if they fall behind even for a few months.\"VisitorsVisitors attend the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, July 6, 2023. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n

Chinese businesses are also rushing to deepen the use of AI algorithms in their services to cut operation costs and improve efficiency. They are doing so with urgency over fears that a delayed application of AI would put them in a disadvantaged position in the market. For many Chinese users, AI tools are already part of their day-to-day life and work.<\/p>\n

In contrast to the perception that Beijing has placed a lot of \u201cguardrails\u201d on AI, China\u2019s AI regulation so far has been limited. There are certain \u201cred lines\u201d. For instance, Chinese chatbots are not allowed to generate answers that violate the country\u2019s strict online content rules, which has seen the rise of the popular game of feeding \u201csensitive questions\u201d to the chatbots and mocking their refusal to answer. Separately, China has maintained a registration system for fundamental AI models, which creates a hurdle for foreign AI companies wanting to enter the market.<\/p>\n

But the general development and adoption of AI is done in a freewheeling fashion. In fact, China does not have a centralised agency to oversee AI in general. The Cyberspace Administration of China is in charge of \u201cregistration\u201d of AI models;<\/a> the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is in charge of computing and cloud; and the National Development and Reform Commission oversees the use of data through its National Data Bureau\u201d. The security and ethics of AI involve even more government departments.\"TheThe DeepSeek logo is shown on a computer screen in this arranged photograph. Photo: dpaIn other words, there\u2019s no check on AI adoption in most areas, including healthcare. As the Post reported earlier, hundreds of hospitals across China have adopted DeepSeek for clinical diagnostics and medical decision support, and the unchecked roll-out led a group of Chinese researchers to raise concerns about clinical safety and privacy risks.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first half of 2025 has witnessed a wave of artificial intelligence (AI) adoption in China. The speed…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[691,6040,24441,12462,2017,738,24442,9710,24446,74,24445,24443,2013,24444,24440,158,1996,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-28346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-adoption","10":"tag-ai-algorithms","11":"tag-ai-models","12":"tag-alibaba-group-holding","13":"tag-artificial-intelligence","14":"tag-baidu","15":"tag-beijing","16":"tag-bytedance","17":"tag-china","18":"tag-chinese-chatbots","19":"tag-cyberspace-administration-of-china","20":"tag-deepseek","21":"tag-ministry-of-industry-and-information-technology","22":"tag-national-development-and-reform-commission","23":"tag-technology","24":"tag-tencent-holdings","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114774890689779704","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}