Key facts
- DeepSeek engineer Gao Xi said the company is committed to open-source AI to accelerate AGI's arrival, even if safety risks rise.
- Gao said open-source development promoted shared innovations and technical advances, speaking on a Wuzhen panel on November 3.
- Gao's position runs against growing US safety concerns and Chinese scrutiny of whether the strategy poses national security risks.
A DeepSeek engineer said the company remains committed to open-source artificial intelligence as a route to artificial general intelligence, or AGI, even where that heightens safety risks. Gao Xi, speaking on an AI panel at the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen on November 3, said open-source development promoted shared innovations and technical advances, according to the report published on November 4.
The position runs against growing safety concerns in the United States and scrutiny in China over whether the strategy poses national security risks, the report said. The account of Gao's remarks was truncated, and the body did not give further detail on the Chinese scrutiny or the US concerns.