Andrew Ng Uses 2 Chinese AI Models for Security Review as US Safeguards Block Requests
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Updated · South China Morning Post · Aug 5
Andrew Ng Uses 2 Chinese AI Models for Security Review as US Safeguards Block Requests
3 articles · Updated · South China Morning Post · Aug 5
Summary
Andrew Ng said he and a colleague used Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 and Zhipu AI’s GLM-5.2 to review the security of OpenWorker, an open-source AI agent tool released last month.
US models including OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 and Anthropic’s Fable 5 refused to help with the cybersecurity task because tighter safeguards are designed to block potentially harmful assistance.
Ng told the Agentic AI Summit in Berkeley that open-weight models now seem safer than closed-weight systems, arguing transparency and accessibility can outperform heavily restricted platforms on security work.
The episode sharpens a broader challenge to US closed-source developers’ long-running claim that open models pose the greater societal risk, especially when guardrails also block legitimate defensive use cases.