Technical standards firm up China's AI priorities

Significance

In regulatory terms, this standard intends to implement a key provision in the formal GenAI regulations published in July, which impose a range of obligations on AI developers. The move advances China’s commitment to promoting GenAI within strict guardrails.

Impacts

• Chinese regulators will require a much greater degree of transparency in testing and monitoring protocols than hitherto practiced.
• Beijing will strengthen outreach with Global South countries on AI regulations, but little concrete action will emerge.
• Despite public political differences, Western policymakers, for example in the EU, will study Chinese AI regulations.