{"id":1043872,"date":"2026-10-16T08:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T02:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1043872"},"modified":"2026-10-16T08:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T02:38:07","slug":"chinas-bytedance-sets-up-ai-safety-team-launches-global-hiring-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/16\/chinas-bytedance-sets-up-ai-safety-team-launches-global-hiring-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s ByteDance sets up AI safety team, launches global hiring drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese tech giant ByteDance&#8217;s AI research unit Seed has created an Alignment &amp; Preparedness team and launched a global drive to recruit 10 researchers, saying it will make a long-term investment in AI safety for its increasingly capable models.<\/p>\n<p>The hiring push comes as scrutiny of AI-agent safety grows in China and the US, especially as developers give them autonomy to access the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>AI alignment refers to efforts to ensure advanced AI systems act in line with human goals and safety requirements, particularly when carrying out complex, multi-step tasks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese tech giant ByteDance&#8217;s AI research unit Seed has created an Alignment &amp; Preparedness team and launched a global drive to recruit 10 researchers, saying it will make a long-term investment in AI safety for its increasingly capable models. The hiring push comes as scrutiny of AI-agent safety grows in China and the US, especially as developers give them autonomy to access the Internet. AI alignment refers to efforts to ensure advanced AI systems act in line with human goals and safety requirements, particularly when carrying out complex, multi-step tasks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043873,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043872\/revisions\/1043873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}