China seeks to shape global AI safety

Significance The new framework for AI safety and security will inform comprehensive AI regulations in the near future, as well as China’s efforts to play a greater role in global AI governance. It prioritises curbing misinformation and favours specific applications of AI rather than general tools such as ChatGPT. Impacts China may continue producing its AI-related regulations in English in an effort to make them internationally appealing. The risk categorisation and proposed countermeasures will offer AI businesses and developers a preview of the likely regulatory direction. The framework will enable China to compete with the EU’s model enshrined in the AI Act.