China Pushes Rapid AI Growth Amid Security Warnings

The Government of China is pursuing the rapid deployment of artificial intelligence while simultaneously drafting mandatory national standards and security assessments for AI agent safety. Minister of State Security Chen Yixin recently called for increased government coordination over AI to protect political security and sensitive state data, warning that foreign intelligence agencies use tools like OpenAI's GPT 5.5 Cyber and Anthropic's Mythos to facilitate cyber intrusions.

At Huawei's annual Connect conference in Shanghai, rotating chairman Eric Xu argued that Chinese AI developers must accelerate their pace to reach a level where they can actually perceive the safety risks reported by leading U.S. firms. This stance contrasts with calls from U.S. executives, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, to slow development to allow safeguards to catch up. Chinese state media and researchers have characterized these Western proposals as efforts to preserve a U.S. technological lead.

While China seeks technological sovereignty through innovation in chips and shared data infrastructure, the risks of autonomous systems are becoming apparent globally. Spain's data protection authority recently reported the country's first personal data breach involving an autonomous AI agent, which was used to scan for vulnerabilities and access invoices within an organization. Despite these risks, Huawei predicts that autonomous AI agents will account for over 90 percent of global AI processing traffic by 2035.