The Chinese authorities are instructing the main artificial intelligence entrepreneurs and researchers in the country to avoid traveling to the United States, the Wall Street Journal He reported Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.
The authorities are concerned that the Chinese experts of AI who travel abroad can disseminate confidential information about the progress of the nation, the newspaper said.
The authorities also fear that executives can be detained and used as a negotiation chip in the United States-China negotiations, Diary That said, resorting to the arrest of a Huawei executive in Canada at Washington’s request during Trump’s first administration.
The United States and China are locked in a global AI race, with the Deepseek China startup that recently launched artificial intelligence models that claim that rival or exceed the leaders of the US industry as Operai and Alphabet Inc’s Google, at a significantly lower cost.
The Information Office of the State Council of the White House and China, which manages media consultations on behalf of the Government, did not immediately respond to requests for Reuters By comment.
The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, said a meeting of senior officials of the Communist Party on Friday to improve the general security of China, even in the fields of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, China’s state broadcaster reported Saturday.
“We should give the highest priority to the country’s political security defense,” Xi was summoned to other members of the ruling Politburo.
Last month, the Chinese leader celebrated a rare meeting with some of the most important names in the technological sector of the second largest economy in the world, urging them to “show their talent” and have confidence in the power of the China model and market.
Chinese executives who choose to travel receive instructions to inform their plans before leaving and, when they return, to briefly to the authorities about what they already knew, according to the magazine’s report.
The founder of Deepseek, Liang Wenfeng, rejected an invitation to attend an AI summit in Paris in February, according to the report. Another founder of an important China startup canceled a planned trip in the United States last year after Beijing’s instructions, the Diary aggregate.
