Matt Sheehan is a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where his research focuses on China’s artificial intelligence ecosystem. He is the author of a recently published paper, China’s AI Regulations and How They Get Made, the first report in a three-part series that explores how the Chinese government is formulating rules to rein in the country’s burgeoning AI sector. He spoke to The Wire a few weeks after Chinese regulators published their interim regulations in July