Musk: China will initiate regulations on industrial intelligence

US billionaire Elon Musk said top Chinese officials had informed him on his recent trip to Beijing about plans to launch new regulations on artificial intelligence.

The owner of Twitter, Tesla’s CEO and one of the richest men in the world, held meetings with senior Beijing officials and employees in Shanghai last week.

“It is worth noting that on my last trip to China I had some very fruitful discussions with Chinese officials about the dangers of artificial intelligence, and the need for some oversight or regulation,” Musk said during his hosting of Democratic politician Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., via “Twitter Spaces.”

“I understand from those talks that China will start organizing artificial intelligence in the country.”

Musk, whose wide interest in China has long raised eyebrows in Washington, spoke of the exchange in a live Twitter discussion with Democratic presidential candidate and vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert Kennedy Jr., John Kennedy’s nephew.