As a strategic technology that is expected to lead the future change of mankind, artificial intelligence (AI) has developed rapidly and enabled thousands of industries in recent years, but also brought a series of problems and challenges such as security, privacy and fairness. The concept of artificial intelligence governance came into being and attracted much attention.

The 2021 International Forum on artificial intelligence cooperation and governance, hosted by Tsinghua University and supported by the United Nations Development Programme, opened in Beijing on December 4. Li Meng, Vice Minister of science and technology of China, said in a speech, "We are now standing on the threshold of an intelligent society. The ship of artificial intelligence is carrying us to the intelligent world, and governance is to correct the ship's course at any time to ensure that the ship is stable and far away.".

At the subsequent main forum on "how to build a balanced and inclusive AI governance system", Chinese and foreign experts and scholars had online and offline dialogue to feel the pulse of AI development and focus on the construction of governance system.

Xue LAN, director of China's national new generation artificial intelligence governance professional committee and President of the International Governance Institute of artificial intelligence of Tsinghua University, proposed that artificial intelligence governance should face the challenges of four elements such as data, algorithm, computing power and scene. In terms of value orientation, we should adhere to the bottom line thinking of safe and controllable artificial intelligence technology, the humanistic thinking of safeguarding the dignity and equality of personal rights and interests, and the empowerment of artificial intelligence The development thinking of economic and social development and the global thinking of artificial intelligence promoting sustainable development follow the governance principles of "harmony and friendship, fairness and justice, inclusiveness and sharing, respect for privacy, security and controllability, common responsibility, open cooperation and agile governance", focusing on "inclusiveness, sharing, prudence and responsibility" Value principle to balance the development and security needs in artificial intelligence governance, form a value consensus of artificial intelligence governance mechanism, and promote the realization of global collaborative governance.

With regard to the value principle of "prudence", Xue LAN stressed that it is necessary to give a clear safety bottom line for artificial intelligence governance. We can neither let it go, let it grow savagely, nor "die in one tube" to avoid over correction.

Gong Ke, President of the World Federation of engineering organizations and executive director of China new generation artificial intelligence development strategy research institute, said that artificial intelligence is a representative technology of the fourth industrial revolution. Artificial intelligence governance aims to promote the innovative development of artificial intelligence with human value for the benefit of mankind and the earth. Therefore, artificial intelligence governance should follow the development law of artificial intelligence and be open The multi stakeholder co governance structure should be integrated with technology, rules, education and other tools, and effectively implanted into the artificial intelligence application platform. He also stressed that we should not only develop a variety of application technologies of artificial intelligence, but also develop a number of artificial intelligence governance support technologies that protect privacy and fairness and strengthen supervision.

Xu Haoliang, Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations and director of the policy and programme support Bureau of the United Nations Development Programme, pointed out that artificial intelligence is not a panacea. Its quality depends on the people who use artificial intelligence, data base and governance standards. "We need to take a comprehensive view of artificial intelligence and need cross-border, cross industry and cross generational cooperation to formulate the necessary governance framework." He said that cooperation between international institutions and countries was crucial. UNESCO recently adopted a proposal on artificial intelligence ethics, which was supported by many member states, which was a positive step. The United Nations Development Programme was ready to support the government and other stakeholders in building an artificial intelligence governance framework to make artificial intelligence a driving force for sustainable development An important force in the exhibition.

"Why do we need a new way of international cooperation in the 21st century to govern artificial intelligence?" Wendell Wallach, senior researcher of Carnegie Council and co director of artificial intelligence and equality initiative, believes that firstly, emerging technologies represented by digital and biological revolution are redefining the meaning of mankind and reshaping the world and future prospects; secondly, the speed of technology is much faster than that of moral and legal supervision, and the absolute universality and importance of new artificial intelligence deployment Speed subverts the industrial government, traditional institutions and social technology structure closely related to people's life; third, there are basic control problems in artificial intelligence and machine learning, which will pose potential dangers when they are established and deployed as key systems.

He said that the establishment of a cooperative international governance mechanism of artificial intelligence should be agile, adaptive, predictable, responsive and inclusive, "But we should be very clear that without the participation of China and the United States, all AI international governance schemes can only be illusions. If we do not vigorously turn to international cooperation, we will not be able to successfully spend the next few decades.".

"Today's society is not just a delivery boy trapped in algorithms. Each of us is trapped in all kinds of algorithms." Su Jun, director of the think tank center of Tsinghua University and President of the Institute of intelligent social governance, believes that mankind is about to move from an industrial society to an intelligent society based on scientific and technological progress and intelligent technology. Artificial intelligence technology not only subversively reorganizes human society, but also brings many severe challenges to human society's legal privacy, ethics and public governance.

He said that technology is neutral and algorithms are innocent. In this great change of human society caused by artificial intelligence, scientific methods are needed to study and deal with various risks, problems and challenges brought by the development of science and technology. "Carry out artificial intelligence social experiments and explore the Chinese road of intelligent social governance" Since its launch in 2019, after more than two years of efforts, the initiative has been carried out in an orderly manner throughout the country, realizing the simultaneous development of Intelligent Technology Governance and intelligent society governance, which will contribute to the construction of an intelligent society with humanistic temperature.

Rohington Madeira, President of Canada's International Governance Innovation Center, pointed out that in the data field, the artificial intelligence governance system should have data ethics standards accepted by all countries in the world, including how to collect data, whose data to collect, how to store data, how to integrate data, how to analyze data, how to encrypt, how to ensure data security and how to use data "It requires a lot of efforts to jointly create universal standards at the global level, which is the governance challenge of our century." He suggested that philosophers from different social, cultural or religious backgrounds form a global committee to think about countermeasures and solutions.

Liang Zheng, vice president of the Institute of international governance of artificial intelligence at Tsinghua University, said that at present, China's development level of artificial intelligence has ranked among the first echelon in the world and shoulders the responsibility of participating in the formulation of international governance rules. Therefore, how to help the global community jointly build a balanced and inclusive artificial intelligence governance system requires systematic thinking and international dialogue.