Key facts
- China planned standards covering AI safety from development through deployment, according to the report.
- The guidelines were described as among the most comprehensive aimed at preventing loss of control over powerful AI.
- The report named no regulator, no draft text and no date for publication of the standards.
China planned to roll out a broad set of standards governing AI safety from development through deployment, according to a report that did not date the announcement. The guidelines were described as among the most comprehensive intended to guard against a loss of control over increasingly powerful artificial intelligence.
The report named no regulator, no draft text and no timetable, so the scope of the standards and which AI systems they would cover could not be established. It also gave no indication of whether the rules would be mandatory or voluntary, or how they would be enforced.
Two attached items were not used: a Foreign Affairs commentary on US China policy and a China Briefing timeline of US-China relations, neither of which reported the AI standards.