Concurrently, China released its Global AI Governance Action Plan, which proposes that a United Nations-led international organization coordinate AI development and regulations and emphasizes the importance to uphold multilateralism, promote inclusivity and ensure equal participation for all countries. The plan envisions open-source cooperation, technology-sharing, and joint research, and accords priority to the bridging of digital divide through AI education, infrastructure and talent-cultivation such as those pioneered by Chinese companies like Huawei. Among the bedrock principles are responsible, people-centered AI with clearly defined and enforced ethical and legal safeguards.

　　China's plan is in sharp contrast to the United States administration's irresponsible zero-sum “Winning the AI Race: America's AI Action Plan“ released a few days earlier. It is not a win-win plan to save humanity from runaway AI, but an irresponsible political diatribe against China which would further widen global divisions. It aims to create a “US AI exports program“ that bundles US chips, models and standards into full-stack packages for allies, while increasing export control against “adversaries“ in a policy that could split global markets, force countries to choose sides and undermine universal safety guardrails.

　　Not surprisingly, it even reverses the modest protections enshrined in previous US president Joe Biden's “AI Bill of Rights“.

　　To add to the urgency, Geoffrey Hinton, considered by many to be the “godfather of AI“ and 2024 Nobel Physics laureate, warned the World Artificial Intelligence Conference that advanced AI could soon surpass human intelligence and become uncontrollable. He compared super-intelligent AI to a tiger cub that grows ever more dangerous as it matures, and warned that eventually even trying to shut AI off may not work.