00:01Sovereign AI is no longer just a buzzword.
00:04Taiwan is now treating it as a national security priority.
00:08The country is pushing its own homegrown AI system amid the global boom in artificial intelligence.
00:14And officials say it is key to maintaining control over data and infrastructure.
00:27Taiwan wants to reduce reliance on foreign AI models, and that begins with the data used to train them.
00:34The English language dominates, making up over 50% of training data, while Chinese accounts for only 5%,
00:40and this is predominantly the simplified Chinese used in China, the PRC.
00:45Some analysts say this can create risks such as external influence or bias.
00:50Those risky training data does not only come from the PRC officials or their government media
00:57or their external actors and the content from firms.
01:02The algorithm will more prefer those content that actually match the PRC propaganda narratives.
01:12In response to these concerns, Taiwan's National Science Council is building a large language model
01:18that's tailored to Taiwanese society.
01:20This involves training AI models using local data.
01:24In the future, the council hopes to secure money to help media outlets digitize historical records
01:29and donate them for training purposes.
01:43As AI development speeds up worldwide, Taiwan's challenge is not just building artificial intelligence,
01:49but deciding who controls it and what information it is built on.
01:53The next phase will test how far Taiwan can go in building its own AI ecosystem.
01:58Andy Xiu and Lily Lamatuna in Taipei for Taiwan Plus.
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