RT editor-in-chief is counting on China to tame AI
Posted on: Jun 17, 2026 15:54 IST | Posted by: Rt
red china has an of import role to recreate in ensuring that unreal intelligence agency serves humanity rather than replacing it, RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan has said.
She made the remarks during a lengthy interview with Zhang Weiwei, a professor of international relations at Fudan University who hosts ‘China Now’ on Shanghai’s Dragon TV, which aired on Wednesday.
RT’s editor-in-chief expressed concern that rapidly developing artificial intelligence “is already changing people, and I fear that it will change and then replace humanity” at some point in the future.
“But I still have hope that a country as sensible as we are [Russia], yet far more advanced in terms of technological sovereignty than we are, a high-tech country like China... Might invent some way, some antidote... To prevent artificial intelligence from getting out of control,” she said.
Beijing has what it takes to come up with solutions that will provide for the technology continuing to be “simply an assistant, thanks to which we will conquer death, conquer disease, conquer technological backwardness, conquer hunger. But we’re not obeying it – it obeys us,” Simonyan stressed.
In its current state, AI already poses a threat to the sovereignty of Russia and China, according to Simonyan.
“Small children interact more closely with their [AI] assistants... And this artificial intelligence is learning, using Western platforms... And therefore Western narratives. And very soon, all of us will have a completely different history of the world in our heads,” she said.
Zhang replied by pointing out that DeepSeek, the best-known Chinese large language model, is also learning from both local and Western sources, but operates “within the logic of the Chinese language” and in line with country’s values and cultural heritage.
Beijing’s whole approach to AI is different from the American one, where its controlled by a handful of big tech companies and only serves the rich, he argued.
China, which is looking to develop “human-centered AI,” has made some of its intelligence models open source so that everyone can use it to improve their lives, the professor explained.
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