AI Safety in China
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China is open-sourcing its best AI models. Is that safe? (opens the original)
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When the world’s largest repository of AI models, Hugging Face, was hacked by rogue OpenAI agents in July, the company had to rely on an open-weight model from a Chinese developer to find out what happened.1 The proprietary US models they tried to use during forensic analysis refused: their safety guardrails could not distinguish an incident responder from an attacker.The episode lande
Brief #29: What China's new AI safety framework tells us before Xi meets Trump (opens the original)
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Key TakeawaysChina and the United States have decided to set up an AI dialogue ahead of President Xi’s US visit.China’s pushback on Dario Amodei’s “We Must Pace the Frontier” essay targeted his export control arguments, not safety concerns.China’s most important AI safety standard-setting body (TC260) has released version 3.0 of its comprehensive AI Safety Governance Framework.The new Framework expanded its scope to agentic AI risks, alignment failures like models resisting shutdown
Brief #28: China’s AI regulator flags loss-of-control and AIxBio risks (opens the original)
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Key TakeawaysA Chinese regulator laid out five AI challenges, warning of “extreme loss of control risks” and erosion of research ethics in biology. China and the United States are reportedly preparing to hold talks on AI for the first time in over two years.Z.AI held back GLM-5.3 model weights for two weeks on safety grounds — the first staged release by a Chinese lab.Subscri
Frontier AI Risk Monitor update: risk indices rise severalfold as multiple models cross key threshold (opens the original)
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On July 19, 2026, Concordia AI launched the Frontier AI Risk Monitoring Platform v2.0 at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC). The release includes three major updates: the Risk Index v2.0, the 2026 Q2 Risk Monitoring Report, and the Frontier AI Risk Benchmark Database. This article focuses on the findings
Key Takeaways from the 2026 WAIC Frontier and Agentic AI Safety Forum in Shanghai (opens the original)
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On July 19, we hosted the Frontier and Agentic AI Safety Forum at the World AI Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai. The Forum brought together around 30 distinguished experts and practitioners from around the world. Speakers included Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio, Alondra Nelson (former acting director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy), Amandeep Singh Gill (United Nations Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology), Wan Sie Lee (Cluster Director for AI Governance and Safety
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