Visitors are watching robots for live line maintenance at the 2025 World AI Conference held in Shanghai, eastern China on July 28, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua]
The 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, which concluded in Shanghai on Monday, not only introduced the latest AI technologies, but more importantly shed light on some big questions about the global governance of AI.
Only by establishing consensus on how it is controlled and used can a country fully utilize the beneficial power of AI while acquiring its harmful potential.
Among the leading players on the ground, the US strives to maintain control of AI by leading the way in setting industry standards for companies such as Openai, Google, and Microsoft.
Last week, the White House released “Winning the Race: America's AI Action Plan,” which aims to consolidate US domination in AI. Prior to this, the U.S. Industrial Administration and Security Administration have released a framework for artificial intelligence spreading to regulate the global expansion of advanced AI technologies. The focus is in particular on preventing the US “enemy” through advanced AI chip export controls.
The European Union is wary of large, high-tech companies in the US that dominates technology, highlighting very, very, if not strict, regulations, and accordingly establishing legal frameworks for some AI applications.
Some of the approaches of developed countries that essentially limit cooperation and monopolize rule production have a bee diet in both nature and practical terms.
In contrast, it is fair to say that China is ensuring that influential know-how moves in the right direction for the benefit of humanity as a whole by providing both wisdom and experience as a reference to strengthening the global governance of AI. China claims that all countries have fair and comprehensive access to AI based on open source practices.
Chinese companies provide hardware, models and cloud services to the world, helping to create an intelligent future that is inclusive, open, sustainable, fair, safe, reliable, and reliable for all. Most notably, China's Deepseek demonstrates that large-scale open source models can empower businesses and institutions in a variety of fields.
And China has always been actively involved and encouraged in the development of AI global governance rules with the aim of ensuring that technology is comprehensive, responsible and safe to use.
In 2023, China advocates a global AI governance initiative based on full respect for the policies and practices of all countries, and proposes a global governance framework for AI that rejects decoupling or discrimination in favor of openness, connectivity and equality.
China proposed an action plan for the establishment of global governance of artificial intelligence and the global AI cooperation organization at WAIC, which was just attended by representatives from over 40 countries and international organizations. These actions are specific steps to bridge the division of digital and intelligence and to promote the comprehensive development of AI for the common good of humanity.
These moves in response to the Global South's call will help to build a comprehensive governance platform based on the public interest and the participation of various stakeholders. We fully implement relevant commitments under the United Nations Agreement for the future. This includes the Global Digital Compact and Declaration on Future Generations – the comprehensive, open, sustainable, fair, safe, reliable digital, intelligent future support all, joint construction, joint construction, shared benefits.
Given the potential to shape the future of humanity for good and evil, the world cannot afford to allow AI to become a tool for geopolitical competition. Open dialogue, mutual understanding and cooperation are key to ensuring that AI develops in the right direction, not just a few, but to serve everyone.
