What changed
TASS chief Andrei Kondrashov has endorsed China’s push to improve global artificial-intelligence governance, while urging media organisations to use AI to detect deepfake misinformation faster.
Speaking at the seventh World Media Summit in Beijing, held November 5–9, Kondrashov said:
- Deepfakes can be used for political and economic purposes.
- False stories can spread within minutes, leaving newsrooms little time to respond.
- Chinese AI solutions are becoming more mature and attracting interest from countries including Russia.
- No specific policy, product, funding commitment or bilateral agreement was announced.
Why it matters
Kondrashov’s argument is practical: AI is becoming both the weapon used to make convincing falsehoods and the tool needed to spot them quickly. A correction that arrives after a fabricated video has ricocheted across social platforms may restore the facts without fully removing suspicion.
That puts speed at the centre of media governance. News organisations need systems that can flag manipulated material early, before editors are forced into a slower game of chasing rumours one by one. But the same technology also raises the stakes for judgment: automated detection can assist journalists, yet the final responsibility for calling something false still rests with people.
Kondrashov also tied that challenge to China’s role in the global AI system. He said Chinese solutions are increasingly attractive to Russia and other countries, and that China’s willingness to share technological成果 could help narrow development gaps. The significance is therefore larger than a summit endorsement: influence over AI governance may increasingly depend on which countries can offer usable tools as well as rules.
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