On Sept. 9, 2024, the National Technical Committee 260 on Cybersecurity of Standardization Administration of China (the “Committee”) released the Artificial Intelligence Security Governance Framework 1.0 (《人工智能安全治理框架》1.0版) (the “AI Framework”). It is enacted in response to President Xi Jinping’s Global AI Governance Initiative (《全球人工智能治理倡议》) in October 2023. The AI Framework acknowledges that artificial intelligence (AI) is “a new area of human development” that “presents significant opportunities to the world while posing various risks and challenges.” It provides non-binding yet helpful guidance for AI developers, service providers as well as users in dealing with AI-security risks.
China’s AI Framework is not the first of its kind. In January 2023, the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published the Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework (the “NIST AI Framework”). As of Aug. 1, 2024, the EU Artificial Intelligence Act also came into force and is the most comprehensive legal framework governing AI.
This article summarizes highlights of the AI Framework that China just adopted and compares certain of its key concepts against the NIST AI Framework.
