American and Chinese AI models give starkly different responses, showing that a model can only be as effective at establishing and recognizing truth as its creator.
By Jianli Yang and Deyu Wang
2025.06.09
Last week marked the 36th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Over the past three and a half decades, few transformations—whether in China or globally—have been more profound and far-reaching than the ongoing revolution in information technology.
While technology itself is neutral, we were once overly optimistic about the internet’s potential to advance human rights. Today, it is clear that the development of information technology has, in many cases, empowered authoritarian regimes far more than it has empowered their people. Moreover, it has eroded the foundations of democratic societies by undermining the processes through which truth is established—and, in some instances, the very concept of truth itself…
Source: https://www.rfa.org/english/opinions/2025/06/09/opinion-china-tiananmen-ai/