Beijing's initiative promotes global AI governance By Robert Lawrence Kuhn | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2025-08-13 07:06

https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202508/13/WS689bc916a310b236346f154b.html It is said, not without merit, that artificial intelligence will change the world more than any other technology since the Industrial Revolution. The fever-pitch race for AI supremacy, both between companies and between countries, threatens to imperil humanity in multiple ways, including widening the knowledge-divide between developed and developing countries (and thus widening global inequality), making workers suddenly redundant and unemployed, altering human psychology and development in unpredictable ways, and, potentially, posing a grave threat to humankind as a whole.