Artificial intelligence is moving fast. But in China, one question sits at the centre of everything: who controls the machine?
"Rules for the Machine Mind" pulls back the curtain on how one country is trying to shape the future of AI. This book is clear, direct, and easy to read. It explains how China is building systems to manage power, protect users, and keep AI within strict limits, while the rest of the world is still arguing over next steps.
You will see how generative AI regulation works in real life. You will understand why China's artificial intelligence policy reaches deep into business, technology, and daily life. You will learn how AI governance and ethics are written into law, and how China's AI governance is becoming one of the most detailed rulebooks on the planet.
This book takes you inside new ideas like human-like AI regulation and AI companion safety, where emotional machines must be kept under watch. It explains how deepfake and deep synthesis law tries to stop fraud and fake media. It shows the role of the Chinese cyberspace administration and how it connects to China Tech and surveillance, and wider controls on AI safety and control.
Readers also get a simple look at how China is regulating AI systems while shaping global AI governance at the same time. You'll see how AI ethics and law link to AI policy in China, and what happens when questions of national security and AI meet daily apps on a phone. The book shows how rules on responsible AI design, AI content moderation, and data security and ai shape what companies build and what people are allowed to see.
This is also about people. It explains the reach of China's internet regulation, and how it touches speech, privacy, AI and human rights. It looks at emotional AI companions, the risks of AI addiction and overuse, and how governments try to protect users while still pushing artificial intelligence in China to grow. It explores where these ideas came from, beginning with China's AI strategy 2017, and ending with new debates over AI rules and public policy.
If you want to understand where AI is heading, this book gives you a clear path. No hype. No scare tactics. Just straight talk about power, law, fear, safety, and the machines that now sit in the middle of human life.
This is a must-read for students, writers, policy watchers, tech lovers, business owners, and anyone who wants to know who is shaping AI, and why it matters for all of us.
