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China establishes dedicated working group for AI safety standards

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What happened: On March 20, the National Cybersecurity Standardization Technical Committee (TC260) announced it is forming a new AI Safety Standards Working Group (WG9) and is now recruiting member organizations. The mandate: WG9 will research the current state and development trends of AI safety st...



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