When asked about forced labor camps for Uyghurs in Xinjiang, Qwen denied their existence and stated that the facilities are vocational skills education and training centers.

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Anthropic alleged in 2025 that state-sponsored Chinese hackers used its AI technology to automate break-ins targeting roughly 30 global targets, including corporations and foreign governments.

Japanese cybersecurity firm GMO Cybersecurity by Ierae reported on October 19, 2026, that around 80 Japanese companies across retail, insurance, logistics, and finance were targeted in cyberattacks using Chinese-developed AI agent Artex.

An Anthropic report revealed that Chinese-linked operations utilized the Claude AI model to track Uyghurs and surveil religious and civil society groups.

Anthropic partnered with Vanderbilt University's Future of Free Speech, the Foundation for American Innovation, and the Collective Intelligence Project to evaluate how Claude AI handles contentious political topics.

Evaluations conducted with independent organisations revealed that Claude AI Sonnet 4.5 was more likely to soften arguments supporting right-leaning political positions.

Anthropic reported that Claude Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5, and Haiku 5.5 scored 99% on the company's internal political evenhandedness evaluation.

Restricting advanced AI models to paid tiers unfairly exacerbates the digital divide

An Aleph Alpha study of models from Alibaba, DeepSeek, and Moonshot AI found that only 17% to 41% of responses on 967 hand-picked taboo topics, such as Tiananmen, Taiwan, and Xinjiang, were balanced

Alibaba Cloud's Qwen AI model family has been downloaded over 3 billion times globally and is embedded with China-friendly narratives and censorship.

The censorship in Qwen is baked into the model's core training protocols through supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning from human feedback, rather than an external filter.

Qwen models deflect, evade, or refuse to answer questions on sensitive topics such as the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, the 2019 Hong Kong protests, and Winnie the Pooh.

Lazarus AI's ReAligned-Qwen 3.5, utilizing LoRA fine-tuning, reduced its ideological bias score from 84.2% to 4.1% as of June 2026 while preserving original capabilities.

In Aleph Alpha's benchmark study of 967 hand-picked taboo topics, Western comparison models Claude Sonnet 5 and Mistral Small provided balanced answers 70% and 92% of the time, respectively

Israeli cybersecurity startup Hirundo edited Qwen's model weights to reduce political bias and censorship rates from 89.8% to 2.8% on sensitive prompts.

Nvidia's Nemotron Cascade 2 model exhibited pro-China party-line patterns in 17% of responses due to training on data generated by DeepSeek and Qwen.

Chinese Minister of State Security Chen Yixin warned that hostile forces could use artificial intelligence to fabricate political rumors and threaten China's political and ideological security.

Uber drivers reported that the algorithm has offered the same job to different drivers at different pay rates, such as offering one driver £27 and another £23

Researchers at the North University of China used Anthropic's Claude 3 Haiku to generate synthetic training data for social media monitoring and content moderation

BaFin will prevent the collection and analysis of sensitive information about people that could lead to them being unfairly disadvantaged

BaFin President Mark Branson stated that the regulator will ensure everyone has fair access to financial services and is not discriminated against by artificial intelligence