The chair's statement of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and the High‑Level Meeting on Global AI Governance was released in Shanghai. The statement notes that AI is fundamentally transforming economic and social development, and that both the opportunities and challenges associated with AI are growing. It stresses the need to strike the right balance between development and security, and sets out the principles of a human‑centred approach, AI for good, fairness and inclusiveness, and shared governance.
The statement calls for the development of an innovation ecosystem led by enterprises, market‑oriented, focused on practical application, research‑based and talent‑driven, and urges the active promotion of the "AI+" model and the use of AI to transform and upgrade traditional industries. It encourages the collaborative development of open‑source ecosystems and emphasises the need to ensure data security and accelerate the establishment of foundational institutions such as data property rights, to guarantee that data is manageable, controllable and traceable, thereby promoting its safe and orderly flow and efficient development and use.
On global governance, it advocates genuine multilateral cooperation within the UN framework, calls for inclusive cooperation in AI industrial and logistics chains, stresses the need to implement the UN resolution on AI capacity‑building, and calls for respect for the differences in history, culture and social systems of all countries.
The 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and the High‑Level Meeting on Global AI Governance are being held from Friday to Monday, bringing together officials, business leaders, scientists and researchers from more than 100 countries and international organisations. The adopted statement marks an important step towards building international consensus on AI regulation and ethics. As CCTV+ reports. The principles enshrined in the document are expected to underpin further negotiations and national AI strategies.
