'New arena for strategic rivalry': China’s intelligence chief calls for regulations and guardrails on AI to prevent new arms race
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When China’s intelligence chief calls AI a “new arena for strategic rivalry” and asks for guardrails, AI risk management becomes explicit statecraft, not just corporate policy. Cross-border deployments, model exports, and dual-use capabilities will increasingly sit under a security lens—plan for licensing, disclosure, and partnership scrutiny to tighten.
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