Artificial intelligence may lead humanity to extinction, industry leaders warn. It's good news for Europe because they could do it for a limited budget. AI development cannot be left to market whim, UN experts warn. As the dust settled, accusations surfaced that DeepSeek may have built its model using data from US companies.
OpenAI and Microsoft are investigating whether DeepSeek trained its chatbot using their proprietary data. Ultimately that competition will be very good for the AI industry. A massive reduction of research and developing costs in the increasingly competitive AI market may prove very welcome.
I would be very concerned about the approach of now putting them at a further disadvantage through this regulatory regime that really restricts access," Ezell said. France's Mistral AI signs partnership with Microsoft. If users ask DeepSeek questions that are sensitive to China's Communist Party, it suddenly stops functioning properly. Probes about the June 4, Tiananmen Square massacre , independence for Tibet or Taiwan , or about deposed politicians or Chinese dissidents are flatly answered with "sorry, that's beyond my current scope.
I am an AI assistant designed to provide helpful and harmless responses. But Castro is not worried. Dieter Kugelmann, president of Germany's Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information , warned that DeepSeek "seems to be lacking in pretty much everything in terms of data protection law". The app collects extensive user data β including IP addresses, chat histories and keystroke patterns β which could be stored on servers in Hangzhou, thus potentially accessible to China's Ministry of State Security.
If these concerns prove valid, the EU may need to act. For You. The Morning Edition. Saved Articles 0. Reading History.
