President Xi Jinping and other top Chinese officials agreed at a meeting on the need for better control over artificial intelligence, state media reported on Wednesday, quoted by AFP.

According to the same source, at the Chinese Communist Party summit, they agreed to “improve monitoring of network data and artificial intelligence.”

“We must prepare for the worst contingencies and possible scenarios and be prepared to face strong winds, rushing water and even dangerous storms,” ​​officials said after the meeting, according to the state news agency Xinhua.

“The complexity and seriousness of the national security issues facing our country have grown exponentially,” President Xi Jinping emphasized.

In April, Chinese authorities announced that they would introduce “security checks” on Chinese-developed AI-based tools such as ChatGPT.

They presented draft regulations aimed at ensuring “healthy development and standard application of generative artificial intelligence technology.”

China’s Cyberspace Administration has released draft regulations for public comment that are likely to come into effect in China’s highly centralized political system.

The text was published at a time when many Chinese technology companies, such as Baidu, Alibaba, JD.com, Netease and ByteDance (the parent company of TikTok), have said in recent weeks that they are working on their own conversational bot model, hoping to build on the success of American pioneer of ChatGPT.

China has announced ambitious plans to become a world leader in artificial intelligence by 2030, and consulting firm McKinsey estimates that the sector could contribute about $600 billion to China’s GDP.