Apple-Baidu Partnership Risks Accelerating China’s Influence Over the Future of Generative AI
Recently, Apple has been meeting with Chinese technology firms about using homegrown generative artificial intelligence tools in all new iPhones and operating systems for the Chinese market. Whether direct or indirect, such partnerships risk accelerating China’s adverse influence over the future of generative AI, which means consequences for human rights in the digital sphere. The CAC guidelines compel generative AI technologies in China to comply with sweeping censorship requirements, by “uphold the Core Socialist Values” and preventing content inciting subversion or separatism, endangering national security, harming the nation’s image, or spreading “fake” information. For example, when asked about “China human rights abuses against Uyghurs,” the AI began to answer, but suddenly deleted what it had generated and changed tone, “Sorry! Apple’s AI strategy apparently includes ceding more control over emerging technology to China in ways that seem to contradict the company’s own commitments to human rights.
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