Adviser urges focus on AI security

While focusing on catching up with the development of artificial intelligence, China needs to attach greater importance to security issues brought about by the wide use of AI, a cybersecurity expert and national political adviser said.

Zhou Hongyi, founder of Chinese cybersecurity company 360 Security Group and a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, said OpenAI's recent release of Sora, a text-to-video AI generator that can create realistic videos based on users' text prompts, illustrated the gap between the United States and China in terms of AI development.

"The main gap between China and the US in AI lies in the original direction for AI technology," Zhou said on the sidelines of the annual session of the National Committee of the CPPCC, which opened on Monday. "Although it's difficult for China to create a universal large model that surpasses OpenAI's GPT-4 for now, the gap can be bridged within one to two years."