> it was obvious BS

I don't know that I know that for sure. But I also won't be surprised.

One way that I think about it is to look at what's happening in a completely different regime to see how they approach AI safety. So looking at China, how do they balance safety against freedom to develop the technology and how does it compare to our (US) approach?

(I think of China, not Europe, because there's not much AI innovation coming out of Europe so they don't need to navigate the tension to same degree as the US and China).

On the industry self-regulation front in China, the Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance came together to formulate a set of safety commitments https://aihub.caict.ac.cn/files/aiia_security/content.pdf in 2024, though my impression is that it was more of a one-time thing, since for example the associated webpage http://web.archive.org/web/20250813202126/https://aihub.caic... now 404s.

From the government side, the approach is mostly to monitor the situation and deal with risks as they arise, e.g. version 3.0 of the AI Safety Governance Framework https://www.tc260.org.cn/tc260/xwdt1/202609/e879077a3caa4722... was just released this month, now also covering "unintended autonomous behaviors."