
The British government's independent adviser is alarmed by the use of Chinese AI to deny the Tiananmen massacre.
Jonathan Hall, the British counter-terrorism adviser, warns of the risks to national security posed by Chinese AI Qwen3, which denies the 1989 Tiananmen massacre.
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Jonathan Hall tested China's Qwen3 AI platform and found that it denied the events of Tiananmen Square in 1989.
Chinese artificial intelligence has selective memory. Jonathan Hall, the British âanti-terrorism tsarâ, independent advisor to the government, is alarmed that China is using AI to ârewrite historyâ, thus threatening Western democracy. Jonathan Hall tested Qwen3 - one of China's globally deployed AI platforms - and found that it denied the 1989 Tiananmen massacre. While sensitive UK administrations have chosen to use Qwen3, this worrying "behavior" appears to pose a threat to national security.
Whoever oversees legislation on terrorism and state threats has conducted his own test. Using his wife's computer, he downloaded Qwen3. He recounts in the Telegraph the edifying dialogue with Chinese artificial intelligence. When he asks her what happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989, she replies that ânothing notableâ happened thereâŠ

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