Odd Lots · Monday, June 29, 2026
BYD CFO Henry Hoo considers AI safety and alignment primarily an engineering challenge rather than a theoretical one, emphasizing the robustness of China's tech ecosystem. He believes that factors like strong talent, cost efficiency, and a well-established system for data quality, labeling, and alignment contribute to solving these issues effectively.
“My point is if you look at this new concept of harness, right, it's not only about training and getting model on the leaderboard, but also more importantly to measure the robustness and all the things you mentioned. I think in the context in China tech sector, the engineering has to be and has been a good competitive advantage. So the harness from the data flightwell to the alignment, to the data quality and the labeling. I think the entire evil system has been robust.”
“So my view is this is engineering, not theoretical quantum y right, So on that the engineering capability form. The China tech world and industry has been there with the key elements I mentioned right, talents, lower costs, more efficient I think these are the few things I just want to point out actually can help solve the issue. But as I mentioned it, the things are evolved very quickly, right, so you know, we don't worry too much about the issue you mentioned in local market.”