China Technology

China Amplifies Covert AI Campaigns to Deeply Infiltrate Democracies: Analysts

OpenAI’s latest report shows a user tied to Chinese law enforcement used the tool to advance suppression efforts, targeting critics in China and elsewhere.
China Amplifies Covert AI Campaigns to Deeply Infiltrate Democracies: Analysts
A response in Chinese by ChatGPT, an AI chatbot developed by OpenAI, is seen on its website on Feb. 9, 2023. Florence Lo/Reuters
|Updated:
0:00

As Beijing expands its artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, it’s deploying the technology to erase domestic dissent entirely and wage large-scale covert influence operations against Western societies, experts warn.

OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, revealed in its Feb. 25 report that it banned an individual associated with Chinese law enforcement who exploited the flagship chatbot to support a series of clandestine campaigns targeting adversaries inside China and beyond.

Jarvis Lim
Jarvis Lim
Author
Jarvis Lim is a Taiwan-based writer focusing on human rights, U.S.–China relations, China's economic and political influence in Southeast Asia, and cross-strait relations.