White House tackles concerns over Chinese interest in Middle East AI as firm tries to play both sides
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Emirati tech firm G42 has looked to partner with both American and Chinese companies, but the U.S. has started to pressure the AI developer into breaking ties with Beijing.
Peter Aitken is a Fox News Digital reporter with a focus on national and global news.
"Everyone’s using [5G], so that it becomes a backdoor into a lot of different systems within the United States," Shea said. "AI offers that same opportunity when [China] partners with our allies: They can both get in on the development side of it and, possibly, skew some of those biases or directly go through and pull out the intellectual property from what’s being put into the model."
The Biden administration has made clear in private discussions with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that the oil-rich nation should pay close attention to ties between Beijing and the Emirati company G42, which launched its Jais AI model – reportedly the most advanced Arab-language AI model.