(Source: "Global Times" 2025-04-28)

4month253976_4154Professor Zhang Xin of our collegeWritten. The following is the text of the article:

How to have a firm graspAIGovernance Initiative

In the grand context of a new round of global technological revolution and accelerated industrial transformation, artificial intelligence (AI) is profoundly reshaping the production and lifestyle of human society and the international competition pattern with its subversive power. Faced with the surging tide brought about by this strategic technology, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, pointed out from a high position when presiding over the 20th collective study session of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee:“Artificial intelligence brings unprecedented development opportunities, as well as unprecedented risks and challenges.”This important conclusion dialectically reveals the dual attributes of artificial intelligence development, and provides fundamental compliance and action guidelines for my country to promote the healthy and orderly development of artificial intelligence and build a governance system that embodies Chinese wisdom and global vision in the context of a new round of scientific and technological revolution.

Currently, our country is at an important historical node in embarking on a new journey to comprehensively build a modern socialist country and marching towards the second centenary goal. Artificial intelligence is a new advantage and new driving force for developing new productive forces, promoting high-quality development, and assisting Chinese-style modernization across domains. From empowering thousands of industries and optimizing social governance to improving people's livelihood and well-being and accelerating scientific research breakthroughs, the application prospects of artificial intelligence are infinitely broad. my country has massive data resources, a complete industrial system, broad application scenarios and a huge market space, which provides unique advantages for iterative innovation and in-depth application of artificial intelligence technology. Firmly seize this advantage, promote the deep integration of artificial intelligence and the real economy, empower the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, spawn new industries, new business formats and new models, and transform technological potential into real development efficiency. While embracing the development opportunities of artificial intelligence, we must not ignore the potential risks and severe challenges it brings. Risks such as algorithmic bias, data abuse, privacy leaks, deep forgery, employment impact, ethical failure and even technological loss of control may not only disrupt the economic and social order, but may even pose a threat to national security and international order. Especially in the current complex and severe international situation, some Western countries have politicized scientific and technological issues and engaged in technological blockade and“High wall of small courtyard”, attempting to use artificial intelligence to curb the development of other countries has exacerbated uncertainty and security risks in the global artificial intelligence field. Facing this sharp weapon“Double-edged sword”, we must not only have the courage to embrace changes and seize opportunities, but we must also always keep a clear head, adhere to bottom-line thinking, and be prepared for a rainy day.

How to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages to ensure that artificial intelligence always moves forward on a track that is beneficial to the development of human society? This requires“Grasp the development trends and patterns of artificial intelligence, step up the formulation and improvement of relevant laws, regulations, policy systems, application specifications, and ethical guidelines, and build a technical monitoring, risk warning, and emergency response system to ensure the safety, reliability, and controllability of artificial intelligence”. This outlines the general outline of my country's artificial intelligence governance system and provides important guidelines for balancing innovation development and risk prevention. Among them,“Safety”, is the bottom line requirement, which aims to prevent the defects and vulnerabilities of the technology itself or endogenous and exogenous risks caused by external attacks and abuse, and ensure that artificial intelligence systems and applications do not pose a threat to the security of individuals, organizations, society and the country.“Reliable”, is a stability guarantee, which aims to emphasize the ability and probability of the artificial intelligence system to operate stably under preset functions and conditions, ensuring that it can continue to function reliably in key areas and important scenarios, and avoid losses caused by system failures or performance fluctuations.“Controllable”, is the leading premise, requiring humans to always maintain dominance and intervention capabilities in the research and development, deployment, operation and iteration of artificial intelligence technology to ensure that technological development does not deviate from the preset goals. Once unexpected behavior or potential harm occurs, manual intervention, correction and even termination can be carried out in a timely and effective manner. These three major goals are interrelated and progressive, and together form a safety protection network covering the entire life cycle of artificial intelligence.

In order to achieve“Safe, reliable, controllable”, it is also necessary to step up the formulation and improvement of relevant laws and regulations, policy systems, application specifications, and ethical standards,“Build a technical monitoring, risk warning, and emergency response system”, to further build a systematic framework for artificial intelligence governance in my country. At this stage, my country has established an algorithm registration system to dynamically track and manage services such as deep synthesis and generative artificial intelligence. Combined with the hierarchical and classified regulatory framework for artificial intelligence applications and based on the risk levels of different scenarios, my country implements differentiated emergency response strategies to achieve precise risk blocking and agile response, while retaining necessary trial and error space for technological innovation. Next, we need to explore further“Soft and Hard Law Collaboration”’s governance model releases diversified governance effectiveness.

It can be seen that China’s practical exploration in artificial intelligence governance, especially its experience in coordinating development and security, balancing innovation and order, and coordinating efficiency and fairness, not only provides institutional guarantees for its own high-quality development, but also provides valuable Chinese wisdom and an institutional toolbox that can be used for reference in the global response to artificial intelligence challenges. Facing the new continent of artificial intelligence, which is full of opportunities and challenges, we should coordinate high-quality development and high-level security. We should not only stand up to the forefront and pioneer and innovate, but also be in awe and move forward steadily. In the wave of global intelligent revolution, we should write a new chapter that demonstrates Chinese wisdom.

(The author is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the w88 casino Law w88 casino, and the director of the Digital Economy and Legal Innovation Research Center of the w88 casino)

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