China is willing to work with other nations and has laid out its plans for global governance of artificial intelligent at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai. Li Qiang warned against “technological monopolies” stating that AI could “an exclusive game for a few countries and companies.” as a result. He proposed the creation a “world AI cooperation organization” at the event.
Li did not mention the United States specifically when he spoke about monopolies. However, the US restricts AI chips exports to his nation. NVIDIA was forced to create chips that were only for China, and to comply with export rules in order to not lose the Chinese market. Chinese companies, like Huawei, are developing their AI system to compensate for China’s inability to access more advanced AI chips made by American firms. Li made the statement just a few days before the Trump administration announced its AI Action Plan. The plan aims to limit state regulation and ensure that the US is able to beat China in the AI race.
Premier Li said that his country would “actively promote” open source artificial intelligence development and that China was “willing to provide more Chinese solutions to the international community” in AI. He also said his country was eager for developing countries to share AI technology with other countries. Li said. “We should strengthen coordination to form a global AI governance framework that has broad consensus as soon as possible.”
