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While the West Hesitates China Marches Forward
The CCP is deploying DeepSeek AI models across the entire country
While the US debates whether large language models are useful, whether scaling laws have stalled, and whether their carbon footprint is too high; while Europe drafts yet another regulation to shield us citizens from frontier technology and looks for fresh excuses to underfund innovation —
China marches forward.
I. Welcome the new Chinese AI officials
The Chinese government has taken a clear stance on DeepSeek: Officials must learn to use it — as a means to master AI and large language models (LLMs) — and integrate it into governance. Nationwide deployment. It’s being applied across the board to reduce workloads, enhance decision-making, and accelerate tasks wherever it makes sense. Unprecedented appreciation for this technology at the bureaucratic level.
Imagine if learning to use ChatGPT was mandatory for government staff in the West. Imagine how quickly we’d sort out where it’s useful and where it isn’t. Imagine if policymakers, the people with the power to change things, gained firsthand experience with LLMs — not for abstract policy concerns or to draft new regulations but as tools in their daily work. Imagine if they gathered…
