#PRC: AI with Chinese Characteristics seeks old-fashioned censorship. Bill Gertz, Washington Times. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. Bill Gertz, national security correspondent for The Washington Times and author of Deceiving the Sky: Inside
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#PRC: AI with Chinese Characteristics seeks old-fashioned censorship. Bill Gertz, Washington Times. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. Bill Gertz, national security correspondent for The Washington Times and author of Deceiving the Sky: Inside Communist China’s Drive for Global Supremacy.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/aug/15/china-adopts-interim-ai-rule-requiring-technology-/
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batsu with my colleague and friend Gordon Chang at |
| 0:09.3 | Gordon G. Chang, who's traveling. He's in Sydney, Australia, but our official intelligence |
| 0:13.7 | is the same problem around the world. Is it going to take over? Is it trustworthy? And |
| 0:19.3 | now we come to learn from Bill Gertz of the Washington Times' National Security Correspondent, |
| 0:25.2 | also author of the deceiving the sky, the prescient book about inside communist China's |
| 0:31.1 | drive for global supremacy. China and AI, the Chinese Communist Party, now looks to control |
| 0:38.4 | AI. Bill, a very good evening, too. This is ambitious on their part. What are they thinking? |
| 0:42.5 | What is the threat to them? Good evening. Yes, this is a really important story in the sense that |
| 0:50.2 | China views AI as potentially undermining rule by the Chinese Communist Party. So they have set |
| 0:58.2 | in motion a interim regulation that all of the more than 100 AI-related companies in China |
| 1:06.4 | must subscribe to Marxism, Leninism, with Chinese characteristics for the new era, as they |
| 1:15.3 | call their communist ideology. In other words, it must be integrated into the ideology so that |
| 1:21.7 | nothing can be said against the Chinese Communist Party. I look at this as the first shot |
| 1:29.2 | in a political war over artificial intelligence. Not several months ago, Chuck Schumer, the Senate |
| 1:36.3 | majority leader, took to the Senate floor and announced that the Senate was going to look at |
| 1:42.0 | legislation governing artificial intelligence. As part of that, he said, we can't let the Chinese |
| 1:48.6 | dominate the rules for artificial intelligence. Go ahead and have a question for Bill. |
| 1:55.1 | So Bill, yes, the Chinese have ambitions to establish rules, but can they actually do that with |
| 2:04.0 | artificial intelligence? Is it physically possible? I think it is. Artificial intelligence is |
| 2:12.0 | a combination of advanced software and high-speed computing that seeks to mimic the creative |
| 2:20.2 | processes of the human brain, human mind, mind brain. And they're getting more sophisticated in |
| 2:28.2 | doing that. There have been some studies here. John, you mentioned it earlier that if you test out |
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