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The Self-Discipline Convention on AI Agent Development was released on Wednesday at the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, led by CAICT, the research institute under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Huawei, Alibaba, Tencent and Xiaomi are named among the 20.
It covers eight areas, from trust systems and interoperability to security and user protection, and signers agreed to oversight by industry associations and the public.
It is voluntary, and in China a self-discipline pact run by a ministry's institute is often where a later standard starts. We have one English-language account and have not read the text.
Twenty Chinese organizations, led by a state research academy, sign a self-discipline pact on AI agents
The Self-Discipline Convention on AI Agent Development was released on Wednesday at the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, led by CAICT, the research institute under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Huawei, Alibaba, Tencent and Xiaomi are named among the 20. It covers eight areas, from trust systems and interoperability to security and user protection, and signers agreed to oversight by industry associations and the public. It is voluntary, and in China a self-discipline pact run by a ministry's institute is often where a later standard starts. We have one English-language account and have not read the text. SourcesC
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- CChinese tech giants and state academy issue national self-discipline pact (China Tech News)chinatechnews.com
This story ran in the Afternoon Brief of November 4th 2026.