{"id":807986,"date":"2026-07-17T14:15:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T14:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/807986\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T14:15:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T14:15:16","slug":"chinas-xi-says-ai-should-not-be-a-solo-performance-by-a-single-country-regulation-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/807986\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Xi says AI \u2018should not be a solo performance by a single country\u2019 | Regulation News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Chinese leader called for more international cooperation in developing the technology at a conference in Shanghai.<\/p>\n

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Published On 17 Jul 202617 Jul 2026<\/p>\n

Artificial intelligence should not be dominated by one country, Chinese President Xi Jinping has said, urging international cooperation on development at a major conference in Shanghai.<\/p>\n

Xi also emphasised the importance of a \u201cpeople-centred\u201d approach to AI technology in his keynote address at the opening ceremony of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference on Friday.<\/p>\n

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The conference showcases the cutting-edge technology Xi hopes will soon rival that of the United States.<\/p>\n

Chinese AI models are gaining ground on the most powerful offerings from the US, attracting global users with lower costs.<\/p>\n

But how to govern the booming sector has become a topic of debate amid concerns over the deployment of AI in military combat and its use by hackers or criminals.<\/p>\n

In his address, Xi spoke of China\u2019s role in ensuring equitable access to AI capacity-building for developing countries to prevent the creation of \u201cnew historical injustices\u201d.<\/p>\n

To that end, he announced China\u2019s plans to cooperate with international bodies, including from Africa, Latin America, Asia and BRICS countries, to provide AI-related opportunities.<\/p>\n

\u201cAI development should not be a solo performance by a single country, but a symphony of international cooperation,\u201d Xi said. \u201cWe should jointly oppose overstretching the national security concept in the field of AI or placing one country\u2019s security over that of others.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Ensure AI is always under human control\u2019<\/p>\n

The US and European Union have imposed restrictions on Chinese tech imports, citing national security concerns, while recent tussles between Washington and American AI labs have raised questions about who controls access to top technology.<\/p>\n

In May, the US Commerce Department issued a notice affirming its restrictions<\/a> on shipments of semiconductors to subsidiaries of Chinese companies located outside China amid concerns about loopholes in Washington\u2019s export control regime.<\/p>\n

The guidance said its licensing requirements for the export of advanced AI chips applied to all businesses with headquarters or a parent company in China.<\/p>\n

At Friday\u2019s conference, Xi also stressed the need for a \u201cpeople-centred\u201d approach to AI with humans at the wheel.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should put in place laws and regulations, technological monitoring, early warning, and emergency response systems, in order to \u2026 ensure AI is always under human control,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

AI has become a strategic pillar of China\u2019s industrial policy, driven by state investment aimed at building a domestic ecosystem, from chip production to consumer use.<\/p>\n

Daily consumption in China of \u201ctokens\u201d \u2013 the industry unit of AI usage \u2013 has increased a thousandfold over the past two years, according to state media citing officials.<\/p>\n

As Al Jazeera reported earlier, China, while lagging behind the US in access to the most cutting-edge semiconductors, holds the edge in powering the huge data centres<\/a> that run on AI chips.<\/p>\n

A typical data centre can consume as much electricity as 100,000 households, while next-generation \u201chyperscale\u201d facilities can gobble up as much power as two million homes, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).<\/p>\n

China\u2019s access to an abundant supply of cheap electricity places it in the ideal position to meet such colossal energy demands.<\/p>\n

It already generates more than twice as much electricity as the US, a lead that is expected to widen amid an aggressive state-led investment in the country\u2019s energy grid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chinese leader called for more international cooperation in developing the technology at a conference in Shanghai. Published…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,5806,49,48,95,44,995,8143,61,772,9671],"class_list":["post-807986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-asia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-china","tag-news","tag-regulation","tag-science-and-technology","tag-technology","tag-united-states","tag-xi-jinping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}