In September the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) announced a three-year plan to regulate predictive algorithms, and Chinese companies scrambled to comply with new regulations. News of the plan came on the heels of two other stringent policies – the Data Security Law (DSL) and Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) – which were passed earlier this year and came into full effect in November.

e need to define clear red lines that we as humankind are not willing to cross. This includes stepping back from creating killing machines - lethal autonomous weapons systems - systems where an algorithm decides in a split second who lives and who dies.