Selina Xu

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235 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 24 Jul

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The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway · China Decode: The World Now Views China More Favorably Than the U.S. (ft. Selina Xu) · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

It's more of like, OK, we want to negotiate some amount of room for growth and we will have this constant feedback with the government.

But at the same time, we know if there is any hint of instability or things getting out of control in a place like China,

This will be quite, I think it will be a direct trigger for the government to step in and to basically re-regulate and crack down on the industry again, something that I think nobody in the tech industry wants in China.

So I think that's very alive in their heads.

And the interesting thing about AI companions is that this is like a global issue.

We see a lot of debates about this in the US as well with,

you know, very high profile cases of teenagers committing suicide.

In China, I think the worry is that, but also romantic relationships being formed between especially young women and AI companions and the refusal to then get married, have babies, and that impacts China's fertility rate.

So I think it is a very complicated issue at the heart of China's whole debate on what do we do with AI.

And I think the best thing to take away from this example of how the guidelines and then subsequent regulation got formed was,

They released draft guidelines on restricting AI companions in the end of December last year, and then they opened it to feedback from society and industry.

And actually, the current regulation that we've seen take an effect as of last week is very much watered down and a lot more narrow than the December guidelines, which had pretty strict restrictions on, for example, you have mandatory human takeover in case of any triggering words.

The platform has to step in and bring in a human.

That's like a pretty high burden for a tech company to have like 24-7 staff being constantly monitoring.

So that probably got industry pushback.

And then now it's not mandatory, but you have to give like an emergency contact or like a guardian.

And it's only mandatory for specific groups of people.

And then the other thing that got watered down mainly was training data.

So the initial draft guideline said that all training data from these kinds of anthropomorphized interactions needed user consent before a company can train on it.

But in the new current regulation that's taken effect, this essentially only pertains to specific personally sensitive information and other things it's good for a company to train on.

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