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Despite US export bans on critical chips, Chinese AI innovation has been expanding, driven by open-source technology and Beijing's backing.\nMany experts believe the US is still ahead, and Chinese firms are trying to catch up as they struggle to raise the hundreds of billions of dollars that investors are ploughing into American AI.\nBut Beijing, including Chinese leader Xi Jinping himself, has also spoken about the risks posed by AI. China must \"balance development and security\", and introduce and improve relevant laws and ethical guidelines, and strengthen prevention of risks, to \"safeguard the interests of the people and national security\", state security minister Chen Yixin wrote on Sunday.\nHe warned of the dangers of \"hostile forces\" such as foreign intelligence using AI and called for international cooperation.\n\"There are strong signals that Washington and Beijing share an understanding of frontier risks,\" Kenton Thibaut, a senior resident China fellow at the Atlantic Council, wrote recently.\nChina has \"technical reasons\" to work with the US, she argues, because its developers would be able to see how their models are deployed outside China, and detect and understand vulnerabilities.\nIn July, China set up the World AI Cooperation Organisation, which aims to shape global AI governance. 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Despite US export bans on critical chips, Chinese AI innovation has been expanding, driven by open-source technology and Beijing's backing.\nMany experts believe the US is still ahead, and Chinese firms are trying to catch up as they struggle to raise the hundreds of billions of dollars that investors are ploughing into American AI.\nBut Beijing, including Chinese leader Xi Jinping himself, has also spoken about the risks posed by AI. China must \"balance development and security\", and introduce and improve relevant laws and ethical guidelines, and strengthen prevention of risks, to \"safeguard the interests of the people and national security\", state security minister Chen Yixin wrote on Sunday.\nHe warned of the dangers of \"hostile forces\" such as foreign intelligence using AI and called for international cooperation.\n\"There are strong signals that Washington and Beijing share an understanding of frontier risks,\" Kenton Thibaut, a senior resident China fellow at the Atlantic Council, wrote recently.\nChina has \"technical reasons\" to work with the US, she argues, because its developers would be able to see how their models are deployed outside China, and detect and understand vulnerabilities.\nIn July, China set up the World AI Cooperation Organisation, which aims to shape global AI governance. 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Despite US export bans on critical chips, Chinese AI innovation has been expanding, driven by open-source technology and Beijing's backing.\nMany experts believe the US is still ahead, and Chinese firms are trying to catch up as they struggle to raise the hundreds of billions of dollars that investors are ploughing into American AI.\nBut Beijing, including Chinese leader Xi Jinping himself, has also spoken about the risks posed by AI. 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