Tech policy expert warns against allowing an adversarial "information layer" in global AI

"If you were to ask, for example, a model trained in China, 'What happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989?' it would respond, 'I cannot answer this.' It will really censor everything that is critical of the Chinese regime."

Bitcoin Policy Institute Head of Research Sam Lyman demolished mainstream regulatory complacency regarding international artificial intelligence parameters, framing the global tech race as a high-stakes ideological battle between free speech and authoritarian control.