Treat AI Like Nukes: Beijing Demands UN Controls to Smash Western Tech Monopolies

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A prominent Chinese foreign policy scholar called Wednesday for a sweeping overhaul of global artificial intelligence governance, warning that Western technology monopolies, geopolitical blockades, and unregulated ethical risks threaten to widen the economic divide between developed nations and the Global South. Writing in the state-run Guangming Daily, Liao Fan, director of the Institute of World Economics and Politics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, outlined a policy framework advocating for United Nations centered regulation, shared security protocols, and international capacity building. Liao argued that the global AI landscape is currently constrained by structural monopolies. A small number of developed…

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