On July 15, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), China’s top internet regulator, brought its Interim Measures for the Administration of Anthropomorphic AI Interaction Services into effect. This law specifically regulates AI systems that simulate human personality traits, with the CAC introducing prohibited content, rules for minors, and highlighting necessary safety assessments for compliance, among others.

Additionally, on May 8, the CAC, the National Development and Reform Commission, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology jointly released the Implementation Opinions on the Standardized Application and Innovative Development of Intelligent Agents. This marked China’s first comprehensive national policy framework specific to agentic AI, introducing tiered risk governance, priority scenarios, and “off-switches” for exigent circumstances.

These are a couple quick examples I pulled up from Google but I saw another recently about AI generated slop content being regulated recently as well.

but what of the workers of the rest of the world?

I agree that all this is a huge problem and I am pretty anti AI outside of contexts that scientists and researchers are using it. Unfortunately the capitalist models are not going to stop so a Chinese counter is truly the only mitigation