AI Briefing — China drafts rules for recommendation algorithms
China’s Cyberspace Administration proposed regulations for recommendation algorithms, adding requirements for transparency, user controls, content governance, and security assessments.
On 27 August 2021 the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) released draft Provisions on the Administration of Algorithmic Recommendation for Internet Information Services. The rules would require providers to review training data quality, prevent addictive or discriminatory outputs, file security assessments for public opinion or social mobilization functions, and give users options to disable recommendation profiles or select non-personalized feeds.
Product and compliance teams serving China should inventory algorithmic recommendation systems, prepare documentation on data governance and content controls, and design user-facing switches to honor opt-out and transparency obligations.
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