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Why Britain should reject the lure of cheap - and scary - Chinese AI
In the west the technology comes with at least some effort to provide security and a benign intent - not so from China
There is much to fear from artificial intelligence developed in China and handed to businesses and governments in the west almost free of charge.
Every month Chinese AI developers such as DeepSeek and Xiaomi dispatch the latest versions of their “open-weight” models that allow users to take the core software and use it without paying an expensive ongoing licence.
In Britain, we love cheap Chinese kit, usually setting aside any concerns about how it was made and who by.
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