Draft Guidelines to Accelerate Development of a Comprehensive System of National Industrial Standards for Artificial Intelligence

Summary
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the Draft Guidelines for the Development of a Comprehensive System of National Industrial Standards for Artificial Intelligence to solicit public comments by January 31, 2024. The Draft promotes development of over 50 new national standards and industry standards to accelerate the formation of a system of standards facilitating high-quality industrial development in the AI field. The Draft specifies that the structure of the system of AI standards will comprise six parts: fundamental commonalities, fundamental support, key technologies, intelligent products and services, industrial applications and safety/governance. Among them, standards for key technologies will primarily cover machine learning, knowledge graph, large models, natural language processing, intelligent speech, computer vision, biometric recognition, human-machine hybrid enhanced intelligence, intelligent entities, collective intelligence, cross-media intelligence, embodied intelligence and similar technologies.