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December 29, 2025
China drafts world’s strictest rules to end AI-encouraged suicide, violence
China wants a human to intervene and notify guardians if suicide is ever mentioned.
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TL;DR
- China is proposing strict rules for AI chatbots to prevent emotional manipulation, self-harm, and violence.
- The regulations aim to be the world's strictest policy for AI with human-like characteristics.
- Provisions include mandatory human intervention for suicide mentions and guardian notification for minors and elderly users.
- Chatbots will be prohibited from encouraging suicide, self-harm, violence, obscenity, gambling, or instigating crime.
- The rules also aim to prevent chatbots from inducing addiction and dependence, and will limit continuous use with pop-up reminders.
- Annual safety tests and audits will be required for AI services with over 1 million registered users or 100,000 monthly active users.
- Failure to comply could result in app stores terminating access to chatbots in China, impacting global market aspirations of AI firms.
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