China’s ambassador to the United States Xie Feng has called for closer cooperation on artificial intelligence, warning that the technology risks “opening Pandora’s box”.
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“As the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is unfolding, what we need is not a technological blockade, [but] ‘deep seeking’ for human progress,” Xie said, making a pun on China’s star AI start-up DeepSeek.
On Saturday, the company said its low-cost, open-source model could achieve a theoretical cost-profit ratio of up to 545 per cent per day, generating around US$560,000 in daily revenue.
This claim could send fresh shock waves through the US stock market after the initial disclosure of DeepSeek’s model triggered a sell-off of tech stocks in January.
Xie said in a video message to a forum co-hosted by Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that there was an urgent need for global cooperation in regulating the field.
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He added that the two countries should “jointly promote” AI global governance, saying: “Emerging high technology like AI could open Pandora’s box … If left unchecked it could bring ‘grey rhinos’.”