Chinese President Xi Jinping said at the opening of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance on July 17 that artificial intelligence should not become the "solo performance" of a single country, calling instead for global cooperation, open-source development, openness, collaboration and sharing. He said broader access should allow industries across the economy to use AI.
Xi also said AI must remain under human control at all times. He called on countries to put in place legal and regulatory frameworks, technical monitoring, risk warning systems and emergency response mechanisms to prevent misuse of the technology.
In the same speech, Xi opposed the expansion of national security concepts that place one country’s security above others. He said AI should not undermine cultural characteristics of different countries or the diversity of world civilizations. He also said China will work with countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and BRICS members to help developing countries build AI capacity and avoid new forms of global inequality created by AI. According to BlockBeats, U.S.-China AI competition is extending from chips and models to open-source paths and global rule-setting.
Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke at the opening ceremony of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance on July 17.
In his keynote address, Xi said, “A single string cannot make music, and a lone tree does not make a forest.” He said artificial intelligence development should not be the solo performance of any one country, but a symphony of global cooperation. He called for open-source development, openness, collaboration and sharing, and said AI should be made available across industries.
Xi also said AI must remain under human control at all times. Countries, he said, should establish legal and regulatory frameworks, technical monitoring, risk warning systems and emergency response mechanisms to prevent misuse of AI.
He also opposed broadening the concept of national security in a way that places one country’s security above that of others. AI, he said, should not damage the cultural characteristics of individual countries or the diversity of world civilizations.
Xi said China will work with countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and BRICS to help developing countries build AI capabilities and avoid new global inequality created by AI.
BlockBeats said U.S.-China competition in AI is expanding from chips and models to open-source approaches and global rule-setting.
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