China hits back at US claims of 'malicious' AI distillation ahead of planned talks - ABC News
China hits back at US claims of 'malicious' AI distillation ahead of planned talks - ABC News
摘要: China hits back at US claims of 'malicious' AI distillation ahead of planned talks
China has dismissed U.S. claims that Chinese artificial intelligen
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China hits back at US claims of 'malicious' AI distillation ahead of planned talks
China has dismissed U.S. claims that Chinese artificial intelligence developers extract capabilities from frontier American AI systems
CHAN HO-HIM AP business writer
September 9, 2026, 5:44 AM
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BANGKOK --
China hit back Wednesday against U.S. claims that Chinese
artificial intelligence
developers are engaged in “aggressive, malicious” industrial-scale efforts to extract capabilities from frontier American AI systems.
The FBI, National Security Agency and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a joint cybersecurity advisory Tuesday that said Chinese AI developers had extracted, or “distilled,” capabilities from U.S. frontier AI models like Anthropic’s Claude, OpenAI’s GPT, Google’s Gemini and SpaceXAI’s Grok “since at least late 2024.”
The advisory named China's DeepSeek, Alibaba, Moonshot AI and Z.ai and said the activities were done “likely with Chinese government awareness.”
In Beijing, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs urged the U.S. to “refrain from making unfounded accusations or smears” against China. It added that both China and the U.S. are major AI powers and should strengthen cooperation.
“China’s AI development is the result of high-level technological self-reliance and strength,” ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said at a regular press conference. “We maintain that all parties should strengthen cooperation to promote AI development that is open, inclusive, universally beneficial and oriented toward the common good.”
AI governance is expected to figure in planned talks later this month between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
The U.S. advisory said Chinese AI companies “route distillation requests through multiple pathways to gain unauthorized access, consequently violating U.S. AI companies’ terms of use.”
“China-based AI companies are engaging in aggressive, malicious, and targeted d