Chinas New AI Agent Risks Trapping Western Tech in Rights Abuses: Analysts

A screen advertising Xinhua News Agency in Times Square in the Manhattan borough of New York City, on March 2, 2020. Andrew Kelly/ReutersChina’s new state-backed artificial intelligence (AI) platform threatens to stifle domestic tech innovation through forced ideological compliance, and in the West, it could also be used to cover up the regime’s human rights abuses, analysts warn.Xinhua, the official mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), will spend more than 1.1 billion yuan ($162.38 million) to launch an AI agent to propagate Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s thinking, according to a feasibility study published on its website on June 5.