{"id":488762,"date":"2026-05-17T05:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T05:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/488762\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T05:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T05:27:10","slug":"what-do-chinas-plans-for-comprehensive-new-ai-law-mean-for-future-of-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/488762\/","title":{"rendered":"What do China\u2019s plans for \u2018comprehensive\u2019 new AI law mean for future of technology?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China has confirmed for the first time that it is drawing up a \u201ccomprehensive law\u201d on artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Industry insiders said the move showed China had accumulated enough practical experience and was speeding up its governance as a result.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A legislative work plan for the year issued last week by the State Council, China\u2019s cabinet, outlined plans to \u201cimprove AI governance and accelerate comprehensive legislation for the sound development of AI\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It said the government would move faster to refine legislation concerning the protection and regulation of data, computing power, algorithms, property rights, cybersecurity and supply chains.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It was the first time Chinese authorities had used such detailed language to describe planned legislation on AI. Last year\u2019s work plan simply said the authorities would \u201cpromote the legislative work for AI development\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">At the same time, the National People\u2019s Congress, China\u2019s national legislature, listed AI legislation as an item to be reviewed for the third year in a row.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China has confirmed for the first time that it is drawing up a \u201ccomprehensive law\u201d on artificial intelligence.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,982,2594,18,2219,2422,19,17,386,117691,36841,46951,8884,82,2636,213278],"class_list":["post-488762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-cybersecurity","tag-data","tag-eire","tag-european-union","tag-hangzhou","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-japan","tag-national-peoples-congress","tag-president-xi-jinping","tag-qiushi","tag-state-council","tag-technology","tag-tsinghua-university","tag-wang-jiangtao"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116588265203251454","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}