China’s Ai Regulations And How They Get Made

China is rolling out some of the world’s earliest and most detailed regulations governing artificial intelligence (AI). These regulations are designed to reshape how AI is built and deployed within China and internationally, and they have the potential to impact Chinese technology exports and global AI research networks. This series of three papers attempts to reverse engineer Chinese AI governance by breaking down the regulations into their component parts and tracing them to their roots. The three most concrete and impactful regulations are the 2021 regulation on recommendation algorithms, the 2022 rules for deep synthesis, and the 2023 draft rules on generative AI.