Security-forward: standards, measurement, and evaluator capability rather than ethics principles; the group's stated remit is AI security standard research and drafting.
Working GroupChina
AI Security Standards Working Group
人工智能安全标准工作组
The working group TC260 created to draft China's AI security standards; a frontier-lab scientist leads it, making it the most direct lab-to-standards channel on public record.
Importance
Assessed per aspect, band 0 to 3. There is no composite score.
Regulatory authoritynot assessed
Standards influence
2 · established
TC260's notice establishes WG9 to organize AI security standard research and drafting, placing it at the entry point of the national standards pipeline.
Technical capacity
2 · established
The group is headed by the director and chief scientist of a frontier lab, which puts working evaluation capability at its center; how far that transfers into committee output remains to be seen.
analyst judgmentshlab-wg9-formation-2026
Convening powernot assessed
International interfacenot assessed
What safety means here
Leadership
Group head; director and chief scientist of Shanghai AI Laboratory
History
- 2026-04-09
Formal establishment under a TC260 notice reported, with the first meeting held and SHLAB's director named group head.
Connections
Establishes
- National Cybersecurity Standardization Technical Committee SHLAB's official article states that, according to a TC260 notice, AI Security Standards Working Group WG9 was formally established.
Chairs
- Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory SHLAB's official article states that SHLAB director Zhou Bowen serves as head of WG9, supporting a chairs relation from SHLAB to WG9.
Engagement fit
Assessmentanalyst judgment
- Plausible for
- Standards-track technical exchange on model security and evaluation methods, likely through TC260 channels.
- Constrained by
- Newly formed; its output pipeline and downstream adoption are not yet on record.
Open questions
- Deputy leadership named in unverified references (CNCERT and CAICT figures) awaits a resolvable source.
- Whether WG9 drafts become national standards or stay technical documents.
Source appendix (3 records)
- shlab-wg9-formation-2026
SHLAB Takes the Lead in Establishing the AI Security Standards Working Group and Holds Its First Meeting · Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory · 2026-04-09open
- tc260-homepage
National Cybersecurity Standardization Technical Committee Homepage · National Cybersecurity Standardization Technical Committee · unknownopen
- report-china-standards-evaluation-2026-06-05
China Standards and Evaluation Research Brief · Asia AI Safety Atlas research brief
Last verified 2026-07-07