The warning comes despite China's usual laissez-faire attitude to new technology and reflects growing concern over AI's capabilities.
President Xi Jinping urged officials to be 'keenly aware of the complicated and challenging circumstances facing national security'. File pic
China's Communist Party has warned about the potential risks of AI, a day after experts said it posed a similar risk as nuclear war and pandemics.called for"dedicated efforts to safeguard political security and improve the security governance of internet data and artificial intelligence", the Xinhua News Agency reported.advancing rapidly, the president urged officials to be"keenly aware of the complicated and challenging circumstances facing national security".
The risk of human extinction from the technology"should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war",
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