Huawei’s chair has urged Chinese AI companies to accelerate development to catch up with frontier US labs, contrasting with calls in Silicon Valley for a slowdown amid rising concerns about the existential risks posed by the technology.
Chinese researchers needed to “increase the speed of development so they can also see the dangers of AI development” like their US counterparts, said Eric Xu, the company’s rotating chair, at a press conference on Thursday, adding that once those risks emerged, the industry would need to “strike a balance between driving development and risks”.