{
  "id": 18119401,
  "title": "DeepSeek engineer defends push for open-source AI smarter than humans despite higher risks",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/04/deepseek-engineer-defends-push-for-open-source-ai-smarter-than-humans-18119401",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-11-04T12:00:10.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3373262/deepseek-engineer-defends-push-open-source-ai-smarter-humans-despite-higher-risks"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "DeepSeek is committed to open-source artificial intelligence to accelerate the arrival of artificial general intelligence (AGI), even if it heightens safety risks, a company engineer says, defying growing safety concerns from the US and scrutiny in China over whether the strategy poses national security risks. Speaking on Tuesday on an AI panel at the World Internet Conference (WIC) in Wuzhen,…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}