Xi Pitches BRICS AI Open-Source Community at Summit — SkimNews
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- Xi Jinping announced at the BRICS summit in New Delhi that China will take the lead in fostering AI collaboration and development among developing countries.
- China proposed establishing a BRICS AI open-source community, supporting large language model cooperation, holding AI seminars and training courses, and building an open AI ecosystem.
- Xi also proposed a BRICS digital ecosystem cloud platform, digital skills training, a BRICS engineer cultivation alliance, and a youth exchange program for scientific and technological innovation.
- Xi's proposals omit any mention of AI safety, despite a researcher who worked at both OpenAI and Anthropic saying this week that many in the industry believe AI might kill all humanity by the end of the decade.
- BRICS, established in 2009 as a counterweight to Western dominance, originally comprised Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, and has since expanded to include Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE.
Why it matters: China is positioning itself as the architect of AI cooperation for an 11-nation BRICS bloc explicitly founded as a counterweight to Western dominance — while entirely sidestepping the AI safety debate now roiling Western labs, where a former OpenAI and Anthropic researcher warned this week that many insiders believe AI could end humanity by decade's end.
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