Shanghai (TDI): Speaking at the annual World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Chinese Premier Li Qiang said the country wants to set up a global organization to cooperate on Artificial Intelligence.
China, a country which seeks large-scale, multilateral cooperation in all mega domains of infrastructure, technology, innovation, and policy, is increasingly putting up its share in the world of AI.
While some see these Chinese aspirations as a counterweight to the United States lead, China has consistently offered its globalist alternatives to the world.
Now it wants to help coordinate global efforts to regulate fast-evolving AI technologies and share its advances with other countries, via a global organization.
Li also warned that AI technology also carries the risk of becoming a sole property of a few countries, without naming any specific country but likely pointing to the US and allies.
“Overall global AI governance is still fragmented. Countries have great differences particularly in terms of areas such as regulatory concepts, institutional rules,” he said, as reported by Reuters.
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Li added, “We should strengthen coordination to form a global AI governance framework that has broad consensus as soon as possible.”
In his address, the Chinese Premier reiterated his country’s vision that outcomes of all sorts of development and technology advances must be shared with all countries and people of the world, equally.
The three-day government sponsored Shanghai conference will continue till July 28, and is bringing together industry leaders and policymakers at a time of escalating technological competition between China and the US.
Chinese Foreign Ministry also released online an action plan for global AI governance, inviting governments, international organizations, enterprises and research institutions to work together and promote international exchanges including through a cross-border open source community.
For the global AI cooperation organization, China has proposed Shanghai as its headquarters, and roundtable talks with representatives from thirty countries were also held in this regard.
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