DeepSeek’s Jobpocalypse Warning Is Bad News for Beijing

Despite its outsize international influence, we don’t hear a lot from DeepSeek. They don’t put out long “recommendations” manifestos or parade executives at global summits. The last public appearance of Chief Executive Officer Liang Wenfeng was during a February meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Since then, the company has skipped nearly all the major tech conferences.

So when a representative from the Hangzhou-based startup steps into the spotlight to sound the alarm about AI’s “dangerous” societal impacts, it’s worth listening. Especially if it encroaches on a topic Beijing has spent years trying to bury.