China rejects threat narratives and defends AI “oriented for good”

O spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry Guo Jiakun argued at a press conference that the development of the AI, an area in which China and the United States compete intensely, concerns the well-being of all humanity, and that all parties should jointly promote an AI “open, inclusive, accessible to all and good-oriented”.

“Disseminating threat narratives” or promoting a “misintentioned competition” will only harm the global governance process of this technology, Guo said, adding that such a situation “does not benefit the interests of any party.”.

The spokesman also mentioned the impact of new technologies on cyberspace and said that Beijing has formally incorporated the AI into the country's cybersecurity regulation system and continues to improve its institutional standards and ethical codes.

“China is willing to continue working with the international community to respond actively to the risks and challenges posed by cybersecurity in the intelligent era, to promote the construction of a shared future community in cyberspace and to make the Internet better benefit the peoples of all countries,” Guo said.

The urgency surrounding IA's regulation this weekend has divided some of the main figures of Silicon Valley and the White House, after Dario Amodei, executive president of Anthropic, Sam Altman, executive president of OpenAI, and businessman Elon Musk have advocated a deliberate reduction in the pace of development of the most advanced models facing risks such as loss of control over systems.

The American President, Donald Trump, classified as “negative forces” those who advocate the regulation of this technology, arguing that the United States is “in front of China in the AI”, are “the most sophisticated country in the world” and that it intends to “keep it that way”.

In view of this debate, Chinese State Security Minister Chen Yixin defended, in a text published by the Chinese Cyberspace Administration, a “healthy and orderly” development of this technology, accompanied by greater data supervision, algorithms, computing infrastructure and applications for civil and military use.

The alert comes in a period of intense activity in the Chinese technology sector, with companies such as DeepSeek, Moonshot, Alibaba, Tencent and Zhipu competing through open models, low prices and fast commercial implementation, approaching the most advanced US systems, despite Washington's restrictions on China's access to advanced chips.

This summer, Chinese President Xi Jinping called for “precise and effective” governance of the AI and China launched an international cooperation organisation in Shanghai with the participation of about 30 countries.

The debate takes place two weeks before Xi's planned visit to the White House at the end of September, a meeting where the AI should be one of the topics addressed with Trump.