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China wants to lead the world on AI regulation — will the plan work?

Having placed artificial intelligence at the centre of its own economic strategy, China is driving efforts to create an international system to govern the technology’s use.
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  1. Elizabeth Gibney

Despite risks ranging from exacerbating inequality to causing existential catastrophe, the world has yet to agree on regulations to govern artificial intelligence. Although a patchwork of national and regional regulations exists, for many countries binding rules are still being fleshed out.

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Nature 648, 503-505 (2025)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-03902-y

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