Xi pitches China as AI partner to developing world, warns against risks and security overreach

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday positioned China as the AI ​​partner of the Global South and said countries should come together to create AI and help developing countries as well.

Speaking at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, Xi announced that China will provide 5,000 opportunities in artificial intelligence training and seminar programs to developing countries, as well as enhance artificial intelligence cooperation with various blocs, including the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the League of Arab States and the African Union.

“China is willing to work with all parties to seize and address the opportunities and challenges of artificial intelligence development with a more open attitude, more pragmatic actions, and a longer-term vision,” according to Google’s translation. His speech in Mandarin.

Xi said that artificial intelligence development should not be a “lone performance” of a single country but a “symphony of international cooperation” and that China is “ready to be more open, take more practical steps and adopt a more visionary perspective.”

Xi’s remarks came a day after 29 countries signed an agreement in Shanghai to establish the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization (WAICO), which will be headquartered in the city. Chinese state media company Xinhua.

Xi also called for strengthening risk awareness and ensuring that artificial intelligence is “safe and controllable” and “remains under human control at all times,” adding that countries should oppose “overextending the concept of national security in the field of artificial intelligence or placing one country’s security above the security of others.”

While the Chinese president did not name a specific country, the United States has implemented various export control measures aimed at preventing China from accessing advanced technology. The United States began tightening restrictions during President Donald Trump’s first term. Entity List of the Ministry of Commerce In 2019.

The Biden administration later announced Export controls in 2022 Restricting China’s ability to purchase advanced computing chips and produce advanced semiconductors, citing national security risks.

chip giant Nvidia Stating that its market share in China has decreased, annual report It was stated that China has failed to create and deliver a competitive product for the data center market that is approved by both Beijing and Washington.

“As of the end of fiscal 2026, we have been effectively precluded from competing in China’s data center computing/computing market, and our effective shutdown of the China market has helped our competitors build larger developer and customer ecosystems that can challenge us globally,” he added.