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- § 01 · AI-GOVERNANCE
China's AI-Companion Rule Takes Effect July 15 — A Clause-by-Clause Field Guide to What Actually Changed
China's Interim Measures for AI Anthropomorphic Interaction Services (人工智能拟人化互动服务管理暂行办法) — the world's first dedicated rule on 'companion'-style AI — take effect on 15 July 2026. This DCC brief synthesises three Chinese-language readings published in the days before the effective date: 数据合规肖大国's article-by-article practitioner walkthrough, 网安寻路人 (Hong Yanqing)'s multi-part work on how to scope anthropomorphic interaction (including his 'Sentiment Interaction Event / SIE' indicator system), and AI前沿信息笔记's read of the business-model logic the rule is really aimed at. Three throughlines: (1) what changed between the consultation draft and the final text — real fines were added, a 'continuity (持续性)' qualifier now narrows scope, the emergency-contact duty was widened beyond vulnerable groups, and the mandatory 'human takeover' of at-risk conversations was dropped; (2) the scope question the rule leaves under-specified — which services are 'continuous emotional interaction' at all — and the SIE-style indicator approach practitioners are reaching for to answer it; and (3) the paradigm shift the rule marks, from *content-safety* governance (AI as tool) to *relationship* governance (AI as social role), which finally gives regulators a handle on attention-economy and emotional-dependency business models. For overseas counsel shipping companion, emotional-AI or character-AI products into China: this is the operational checklist and the open-question list, two weeks out.
- § 02 · AI-GOVERNANCE
Where China's Draft AI Anthropomorphic-Interaction Measures Need Work — A Scholar's Reform Map
Li Wenlong (科技利维坦) walks through the directions in which he would amend China's draft Interim Measures for the Administration of AI Anthropomorphic Interaction Services (人工智能拟人化互动服务管理办法) — the country's first dedicated rule on 'companion'-style AI. His critique is structural, not cosmetic: the core definition of '拟人化 (anthropomorphisation)' is too broad because it anchors on human-like expression rather than the real harm (relational dependency); the invented concept of '交互数据 (interaction data)' should be deleted and folded back into PIPL rather than blanket-prohibited; Chapter 2 mixes three incompatible duty types and should be split; the '1M registered / 100k MAU' security-assessment trigger is borrowed from other regimes and does not track real risk; and the training-data duties are horizontal obligations misplaced in a vertical rule. For overseas counsel building companion-AI or emotional-AI products for the China market: this is a map of where the draft is likely to move, and which duties fall on deployers versus base-model providers.