ChinaInterim Measures for the Administration of Anthropomorphic Interactive Services of Artificial Intelligence, Article 18
Interim Measures for the Administration of Anthropomorphic Interactive Services of Artificial Intelligence (人工智能拟人化互动服务管理暂行办法) 2026, Art. 18
In force since .
An AI transparency rule binding private bodies.
- How the hook was established
- express
- What makes it apply
- Market targeting
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Remind users they are interacting with an AI service rather than a person, at first use and again at re-login, if your product simulates a human personality and converses in an emotional style
- Re-notify prominently, by a method such as a pop-up, when the system detects signs of over-reliance or addiction
- Re-notify prominently once continuous use passes two hours
- This reaches companion-style interaction services, not every chatbot or AI-assisted tool
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
In the frameworks
- NIST AI RMF
- MEASURE 2.8Risks associated with transparency and accountability – as identified in the MAP function – are examined and documented.
Our reading of where this law's duties sit in each framework. It never says that running a control meets the law. How we read a framework against the law
Who enforces it
Settledness
- As of
- Open questions
- What measures count as 有效措施 ("effective measures") to remind a user that they are interacting with an AI service and not a natural person under Article 18?
- What must a provider have detected, and by what method, before it has 发现 ("discovered") a user's 过度依赖、沉迷倾向 ("over-reliance or addiction tendency") and must give the pop-up reminder under Article 18?
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Article 18 requires an anthropomorphic interactive service provider to remind users that they are interacting with an AI service rather than a natural person, and to re-notify prominently on signs of over-reliance or after two continuous hours of use; it states no duty to log, record, or later produce evidence that a reminder occurred. Two other provisions of the same Measures sit outside this instrument's own citation (Article 18): Article 10 requires retaining network logs (网络日志) as part of the provider's life-cycle safety responsibilities, and Article 24 requires preserving records on discovering a major safety risk.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Providers of anthropomorphic AI interactive services, products that simulate a human personality and engage in emotionally-styled conversation, must take effective measures to remind users that they are interacting with an AI service rather than a natural person, at first use and at re-login, and must dynamically re-notify users through a prominent method such as a pop-up when the system detects signs of over-reliance or addiction, or when continuous use exceeds two hours.
This is narrower than a general bot-disclosure duty: it reaches only anthropomorphic, companion-style AI interaction services, not every chatbot or AI-assisted tool. Issued jointly by the Cyberspace Administration of China, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Public Security, and the State Administration for Market Regulation on , finalized from a public-comment draft.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app deploys a companion chatbot.
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