AI Safety in China #19

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# AI Safety in China \#19

### Top official warns against unchecked global AI competition, corporate safety commitments, AI safety and national security, frontier risks in technical standards plans, papers on superalignment

Apr 02, 2025

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_Note: This newsletter edition was delayed due to Concordia AI’s participation in the French AI Action Summit and other research projects. It covers developments from January to March 2025 and is much longer than usual. We plan to return to a monthly publication schedule going forward._

## Key Takeaways

- One of the top seven officials in China warned of unrestrained AI competition at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

- China participated in the French AI Action Summit, where leading Chinese institutions launched the _China AI Safety & Development Association_—framed as China’s counterpart to an AI Safety Institute.

- 17 Chinese companies endorsed a set of AI Safety Commitments.

- AI safety was referenced in high-level Chinese government plans around public safety and emergency planning, and a leading security-linked think tank wrote a deep analysis of AI safety’s national security implications.

- National plans for developing technical AI standards explicitly reference frontier AI safety risks.

- New technical papers were published on dual-use risks, scalable oversight, and mechanistic interpretability.


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## International AI Governance

#### Senior Chinese official warns against AI competition at Davos

**Background:** On January 21, 2025, Chinese Executive Vice Premier DING Xuexiang (丁薛祥) emphasized ( [En](https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/xw/zyxw/202501/t20250122_11543099.html), [Ch](https://www.mfa.gov.cn/web/wjdt_674879/gjldrhd_674881/202501/t20250122_11542793.shtml)) the need for international cooperation on AI safety at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos. Ding is China’s top science and technology official as the head of the [Central Science and Technology Commi

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