{"id":25500,"date":"2026-10-17T15:37:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T13:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/17\/why-britain-should-reject-the-lure-of-cheap-and-scary-chinese-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T15:37:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T13:37:40","slug":"why-britain-should-reject-the-lure-of-cheap-and-scary-chinese-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/17\/why-britain-should-reject-the-lure-of-cheap-and-scary-chinese-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Britain should reject the lure of cheap \u2013 and  scary \u2013 Chinese AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the west the technology comes with at least some effort to provide security and a benign intent \u2013 not so from China<\/p>\n<p>There is much to fear from artificial intelligence developed in China and handed to businesses and governments in the west almost free of charge.<\/p>\n<p>Every month Chinese AI developers such as DeepSeek and Xiaomi dispatch the latest versions of their \u201copen-weight\u201d models that allow users to take the core software and use it without paying an expensive ongoing licence.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/oct\/17\/why-britain-should-reject-the-lure-of-cheap-and-scary-chinese-ai\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ed76515ea4f9df6a0b170674679392f87ba2c9ea\/531_0_4025_3221\/master\/4025.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3b88a02580f809a6d160f8960e568a1c\" title=\"Why Britain should reject the lure of cheap \u2013 and  scary \u2013 Chinese AI\" \/>In the west the technology comes with at least some effort to provide security and a benign intent \u2013 not so from China<br \/>\nThere is much to fear from artificial intelligence developed in China and handed to businesses and governments in the west almost free of charge.<br \/>\nEvery month Chinese AI developers such as DeepSeek and Xiaomi dispatch the latest versions of their \u201copen-weight\u201d models that allow users to take the core software and use it without paying an expensive ongoing licence. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the west the technology comes with at least some effort to provide security and a benign intent \u2013 not so from China There is much to fear from artificial intelligence developed in China and handed to businesses and governments in the west almost free of charge. Every month Chinese AI developers such as DeepSeek &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/17\/why-britain-should-reject-the-lure-of-cheap-and-scary-chinese-ai\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Britain should reject the lure of cheap \u2013 and  scary \u2013 Chinese AI<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25500"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}