Global AI Governance: Status Quo, Dilemmas, and China's Approach

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Liu Yang 图书馆 Author
Zhi Zheng Author

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artificial intelligence, global governance, governance dilemmas, China's path

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Artificial intelligence is a strategic technology leading a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation. Global artificial intelligence governance refers to the regulation and control of the multifaceted issues involved in the entire process of the research, development and application of artificial intelligence, and it plays a key role in guiding science and technology toward good and in shaping a sustainable global artificial intelligence ecosystem. Taking the current state of global artificial intelligence governance as its starting point, and in view of the current dilemmas—insufficient representativeness in participation, insufficient coordination among governance mechanisms, considerable difficulty in coordinating technical rules, and insufficient release of governance dividends—this paper proposes a framework for global artificial intelligence governance from the aspects of deepening the construction of multilateral cooperation mechanisms, focusing on the formulation of technical safety and ethical standards, attending to the construction of rules for cross-border data flow, and accelerating the fulfillment of artificial intelligence governance commitments, in the hope of providing new ideas for global artificial intelligence governance and of promoting the development of the global artificial intelligence governance system in a more open and inclusive direction.

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