"China's Cyberspace Administration last week published draft regulations governing the behavior of AI agents and suggested humans should always retain the ability to review decisions taken by software. The draft expresses Beijing's enthusiasm for AI agents with a call for efforts to develop datasets that accelerate development, along with security standards that make agents safe to use and ensure they behave ethically."
"There's also a call to develop mandatory standards for how agents will behave "in fields such as healthcare, transportation, media, and public safety." China also wants to participate in international fora that develop such standards. The draft calls for developers of AI agents to "clarify the reasonable boundaries and required authority for various decision-making methods, such as decisions limited to the user, decisions requiring user authorization, and autonomous decisions by the intelligent agent.""
"Those boundaries should "Ensure that users have the right to know and the final decision-making power regarding the autonomous decisions made by the intelligent agent, and that the intelligent agent's actions do not exceed the scope authorized by the user." The draft identifies many tasks Beijing thinks agents might take on, including marking homework, analyzing medical images, evaluating employee performance and recommending promotions, helping disaster relief efforts, and even providing "intelligent management of the entire bidding and tendering process, ensuring standardization and efficiency throughout.""
Draft regulations govern AI agent behavior and require humans to retain the ability to review decisions made by software. The rules call for development of datasets to accelerate AI agent progress, along with security standards to keep agents safe and ethically aligned. Mandatory standards are proposed for agent conduct in healthcare, transportation, media, and public safety. Developers must clarify boundaries and required authority for different decision types, including user-limited actions, actions requiring user authorization, and autonomous decisions. The boundaries must ensure users can know and control autonomous decisions and that agents do not exceed authorized scope. The draft lists tasks such as homework marking, medical image analysis, employee performance evaluation, disaster relief support, and management of bidding and tendering processes.
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