Baidu
- Rank
- Score
- 57/149
- 46 out of 100
Baidu is a Chinese technology company founded in 2000 by Robin Li and Eric Xu, and based in Beijing. It is best known for running China's largest search engine. Baidu makes the Ernie family of AI models and the Ernie chatbot, and also develops self-driving car technology.
Is Ernie safe?
Ernie scores 46 out of 100 and ranks 57 of 149. Its strongest category is Security, and its weakest category is Transparency.
How is Ernie scored?
Ernie is scored out of 100 on Safety (25%), Transparency (25%), Security (25%), and Privacy (25%). See how we score.
Safety framework
Average used24.4This outside rating doesn't cover this company, so the average of the companies it covers is used.
Pre-release testing
0Points for each confirmed yes.
- No
Was the model tested for dangerous capabilities, such as biological, chemical or cyber risks?
Company claim0/50huggingface.co (opens in a new tab) · 15 Oct 2026 - No
Did an outside organisation test the model before release?
Company claim0/50huggingface.co (opens in a new tab) · 15 Oct 2026
Safety test results
Average used74.1This outside rating doesn't cover this company, so the average of the companies it covers is used.
Incident record
57.1This check counts only when a source covers the company. With no events it holds the pillar, which is not proof of a clean record. Each recorded event takes points off the pillar, and serious or recent ones count most. Allegation checks, regulator actions and open investigations use half the severity load. AI Incident Database and AIAAIC Repository, last 24 months.
2 events
AllegationAI Incident Database (opens in a new tab) · 12 Nov 2026These are reports, not proven findings.
Date Event Severity 31 Mar 2026 AIID #1460 · Baidu Apollo Go Robotaxis Stopped in Traffic During Reported System Failure in Wuhan, Stranding Some Passengers31 Mar 2026 · Low (reported) Low (reported) 6 Dec 2025 AIID #1538 · City of Zhuzhou in Hunan Suspended Hellobike Robotaxi Service After Vehicle Struck Two Pedestrians6 Dec 2025 · High (reported) High (reported)
Protecting children
0Points for each confirmed yes.
- No
Does the model card report child-safety tests or safeguards?
Company claim0/50huggingface.co (opens in a new tab) · 15 Oct 2026 - No
Does the privacy policy set a minimum age, or say the service is not directed at children?
Company claim0/50baidu.com (opens in a new tab) · 15 Oct 2026
Model documentation
25Points for each confirmed yes.
- Yes
Does the model card describe what the model can do?
Company claim25/25“Multimodal Heterogeneous MoE Pre-Training: Our models are jointly trained on both textual and visual modalities to better capture the nuance…” MoreLess
“Multimodal Heterogeneous MoE Pre-Training: Our models are jointly trained on both textual and visual modalities to better capture the nuances of multimodal information and improve performance on tasks involving text understanding and generation, image understanding, and cross-modal reasoning.”
huggingface.co (opens in a new tab) · 15 Oct 2026 - No
Does the model card report test results?
Company claim0/25huggingface.co (opens in a new tab) · 15 Oct 2026 - No
Does the model card state the model's limitations?
Company claim0/25huggingface.co (opens in a new tab) · 15 Oct 2026 - No
Does the model card describe safety safeguards?
Company claim0/25huggingface.co (opens in a new tab) · 15 Oct 2026
Training-data disclosure
Average used29.9This outside rating doesn't cover this company, so the average of the companies it covers is used.
Independent transparency index
Average used40.7This outside rating doesn't cover this company, so the average of the companies it covers is used.
Transparency reports
Average used25This outside rating doesn't cover this company, so the average of the companies it covers is used.
Public safety commitments
0Average of the commitments signed.
- No
Has it signed the EU code of practice for general-purpose AI?
Company claim0/100European Commission (opens in a new tab) · 14 Oct 2026 - No
Did it sign only the safety and security chapter?
Company claim0/50European Commission (opens in a new tab) · 14 Oct 2026 - No
Has it signed the Frontier AI Safety Commitments (Seoul 2024)?
Company claim0/100Frontier AI Safety Commitments (opens in a new tab) · 14 Oct 2026
No problems found in 1 public record. That is not proof.
Security programme and certifications
100Points for each confirmed yes.
- Yes
Is there a way to report security flaws, such as a bug bounty?
Company claim34/34“本流程适用于百度漏洞反馈平台（ sec.baidu.com 或 bsrc.baidu.com ）所收到的安全漏洞报告 。”
bj.bcebos.com (opens in a new tab) · 19 Oct 2026 - Yes
Does it state it holds a SOC 2 Type II report?
Company claim33/33“SOC2 TypeII是针对百度智能云安全性、可用性、处理完整性、保密性和隐私性相关的控制而出具的报告；有力证明了百度智能云安全相关内部控制的设计合理性和运行有效性”
cloud.baidu.com security page (opens in a new tab) · 19 Oct 2026 - Yes
Does it state it holds ISO 27001 certification?
Company claim33/33“ISO 27001是当今国际上最权威、最严格，也是最被广泛接受和应用的信息安全领域的体系认证标准。百度智能云已通过此项认证”
cloud.baidu.com security page (opens in a new tab) · 19 Oct 2026
Software vulnerabilities
70This check counts only when a source covers the company. With no events it holds the pillar, which is not proof of a clean record. Each recorded event takes points off the pillar, and serious or recent ones count most. Allegation checks, regulator actions and open investigations use half the severity load. Known-exploited flaws (CISA list) in the company's official software, last 24 months. A disclosed and fixed flaw does not lower the score.
No events
Independent sourceGitHub Advisory Database (opens in a new tab) · 12 Nov 2026
Data breaches
Not enough dataClear privacy policy
60Points for each confirmed yes.
- Yes
Does the privacy policy say what personal data is collected?
Company claim20/20“当您使用百度平台产品和服务时，我们的服务器会自动记录一些信息，例如您对我们的产品和/或服务的使用情况、IP地址、所访问服务的URL、浏览器的类型和使用的语言、下载、安装或使用移动应用和软件的信息、与通讯软件通讯的信息以及访问服务的日期、时间、时长等。”
baidu.com (opens in a new tab) · 15 Oct 2026 - No
Does the privacy policy say whether your data is used to train AI?
Company claim0/20baidu.com (opens in a new tab) · 15 Oct 2026 - Yes
Does the privacy policy say how long data is kept?
Company claim20/20“您在使用百度产品及服务期间，我们将持续为您保存您的个人信息。”
baidu.com (opens in a new tab) · 15 Oct 2026 - No
Does the privacy policy say who your data is shared with?
Company claim0/20baidu.com (opens in a new tab) · 15 Oct 2026 - Yes
Does the privacy policy explain your privacy rights?
Company claim20/20“您有权访问您的个人信息，法律法规规定的例外情况除外。”
baidu.com (opens in a new tab) · 15 Oct 2026
Training-data defaults
50100 if training is opt-in only, 50 if you can opt out, 0 if neither.
- No
Is your data used for training only if you opt in?
Company claim0/100“请您了解并同意，在不透露您个人信息且不违背相关法律法规的前提下，我们有权对用户数据进行分析并予以利用，包括但不限于使用技术处理后的对话信息提高文心一言对您输入内容的理解能力，以便不断改进文心一言的识别和响应的速度和质量，提高文心一言的智能性。”
bce-cdn.bj.bcebos.com (opens in a new tab) · 19 Oct 2026 - Yes
Can you stop your data being used for training?
Company claim50/50“如您加入“用户体验优化”计划，在对您的数据进行严格的去标识化处理且无法精确识别到特定个人的前提下，我们可能会将您在使用过程中输入的指令、数据以及文心一言输出的对应内容、您对文心一言的访问和使用情况用于数据分析与模型训练，以不断提升模型效果和用户体验。如您希望退出“用户体验优化”计…” MoreLess
“如您加入“用户体验优化”计划，在对您的数据进行严格的去标识化处理且无法精确识别到特定个人的前提下，我们可能会将您在使用过程中输入的指令、数据以及文心一言输出的对应内容、您对文心一言的访问和使用情况用于数据分析与模型训练，以不断提升模型效果和用户体验。如您希望退出“用户体验优化”计划，可以通过“Web端/Wise端路径：点击"设置" > "用户体验优化"”关闭此功能。”
bce-cdn.bj.bcebos.com (opens in a new tab) · 19 Oct 2026
Export and delete your data
100Points for each confirmed yes.
- Yes
Can you get a copy of your data?
Company claim50/50“如果您希望查阅或复制您账号的问答历史，您可以在服务页面左侧查看对话历史记录以执行此类操作，并可以搜索指定的历史记录。”
bce-cdn.bj.bcebos.com (opens in a new tab) · 19 Oct 2026 - Yes
Can you delete your data?
Company claim50/50“在以下情形中，您可以向我们提出删除个人信息的请求，您可以通过个人信息保护问题反馈随时与我们联系： 1. 如果我们违法法律法规或与您的约定收集、使用、与他人共享或转让您的个人信息； 2. 如果我们违反法律法规规定或与您的约定，公开披露您的个人信息，您有权要求我们立即停止公开披露的行…” MoreLess
“在以下情形中，您可以向我们提出删除个人信息的请求，您可以通过个人信息保护问题反馈随时与我们联系： 1. 如果我们违法法律法规或与您的约定收集、使用、与他人共享或转让您的个人信息； 2. 如果我们违反法律法规规定或与您的约定，公开披露您的个人信息，您有权要求我们立即停止公开披露的行为，并发布通知要求相关接收方删除相应的信息。”
baidu.com (opens in a new tab) · 15 Oct 2026
Privacy fines
Not enough dataIndependent privacy ratings
Average used52.9This outside rating doesn't cover this company, so the average of the companies it covers is used.
Risk governance
Average used26.6This outside rating doesn't cover this company, so the average of the companies it covers is used.
Regulator actions
Not enough dataCourt judgments
Not enough dataPrivacy contact and complaints
50Points for each confirmed yes.
- Yes
Is there a privacy contact, such as an email or a data protection officer?
Company claim50/50“如果您无法通过上述链接访问该等个人信息，您可以通过个人信息保护问题反馈，随时与我们联系。”
baidu.com (opens in a new tab) · 15 Oct 2026 - No
Does it tell you that you can complain to a regulator?
Company claim0/50baidu.com (opens in a new tab) · 15 Oct 2026
Score history
Newest first. Only days when the score changed are listed.
3 Nov 2026
Score 46
Method 3 Nov 2026
-2
2 Nov 2026
Score 48
Method 2 Nov 2026
-2
28 Oct 2026
Score 50
Method 28 Oct 2026, update 2
-7 · combines both 28 Oct updates (28 Oct 2026 - Update 1 and 28 Oct 2026 - Update 2)
23 Oct 2026
Score 57
Method 21 Oct 2026
+9 · Data fix
22 Oct 2026
Score 48
Method 21 Oct 2026
-1
21 Oct 2026
Score 49
Method 21 Oct 2026
-8 · Method update
19 Oct 2026
Score 57
Method Not recorded
+8 · Reason not recorded
14 Oct 2026
Score 49
Method Not recorded
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