A Chinese scholar cautions that advanced AI systems can develop a kind of 'sovereign‑consciousness'—baked‑in national or civilizational perspectives. If one model dominates, its value frame could quietly set global defaults. He argues for competing models to preserve viewpoint diversity and reduce soft‑power capture.
— Treating AI as a carrier of worldviews reframes governance from pure safety/performance to geopolitical pluralism and standards competition.
Kelsey Piper
2025.10.17
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DeepSeek’s Chinese‑language replies advised avoiding protests and using 'lawful petitions,' while its English answer was more enabling; the author also notes broadly center‑left outputs across models, consistent with English‑dominant training shaping values—both support the claim that models carry worldview imprints that can vary by language and jurisdiction.
Thomas des Garets Geddes
2025.10.10
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Zheng Yongnian says DeepSeek 'produces knowledge no different from ChatGPT' and warns that without a Chinese social‑science foundation, AI will reproduce Western intellectual 'colonisation'—a direct claim that models carry embedded values and worldviews tied to their knowledge base.
Rob Kurzban
2025.10.01
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By arguing and presenting evidence that AIs can mirror human moral biases like omission bias, the article supports the broader claim that models carry embedded value frames from their training sources, implying governance must account for inherited norms.
BeauHD
2025.09.18
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DeepSeek’s responses reportedly echo Chinese government narratives and deliver lower‑quality or unsafe code for prompts tied to Tibet, Taiwan, Falun Gong, and ISIS, aligning with the thesis that models can embed and express a sovereign worldview that shapes outputs and safety.
Thomas des Garets Geddes
2025.09.07
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Liu Jia’s warning about 'sovereign‑consciousness' in advanced AI and the need for multiple models, cited in this August digest.