This event will explore China’s AI strategy and analyze its global implications for technological development, innovation, governance, and cooperation with Europe. This event will investigate what are the core pillars of China’s national AI strategy, and how do they shape the country’s ambitions in global technological leadership. At the same time, the...
The International AI Cooperation and Governance Forum 2025 launched at the University of Melbourne on November 27 (Wednesday), bringing together leading scholars, policymakers, industry executives, and representatives from various international organizations to discuss the role of global collaboration in shaping a safer, more inclusive AI future.Co-hosted...
The UNU Macau AI Conference 2025 concluded on October 24 at the Galaxy International Convention Center, Macau. The event gathered over 500 participants from more than 30 countries to explore the future of AI under the theme “AI for Humanity: Building an Equitable Digital Future.” As part of the UNU Macau Milestone Series, the conference commemorated the...
The UNU Global AI Network is pleased to launch the AI for SDGs — Global Youth AI Future Innovation Competition, an international science and technology innovation competition with the goals of empowering social innovation1, advancing yo...
The final competition of this year’s U&AI | AI for SDGs Youth Bootcamp, hosted by the Institute for AI International Governance of Tsinghua University (I-AIIG) and supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), was succes...
17 November, Beijing – Global youth from 14 teams put forward innovative AI solutions for advancing the Sustainable Development Goals on Tuesday at the online final competition of U&AI Camp, an international youth bootcamp. Launched in ...
On April 1, 2026, a delegation from the Institute for AI International Governance (I-AIIG) at Tsinghua University, led by Vice Dean Liang Zheng, visited Leju Robotics for an academic exchange on the development of embodied AI, humanoid r...
On March 30, 2026, Fabrizio Hochschild Drummond, Senior Advisor to the Global Youth Development Alliance (GYDA), Senior Advisor and Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), and former United Nations Under-Secretary-General...
Among the first UNU Hubs in Mainland China, shaping global frameworks for responsible and inclusive AI development. The United Nations University (UNU), via UNU Institute in Macau (UNU Macau), and Tsinghua University have jointly launche...
“In China we define AI as an enabler to improve existing industry, like healthcare, energy, or agriculture,” says AI policy researcher Liang Zheng, of Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. “The first priority is to use it to benefit ...
With 87% of Chinese companies planning to increase AI investment in 2025 and more than half reporting faster than expected progress, China’s AI momentum is accelerating. Simultaneously, the State Council’s AI+ Action Plan is pushing a...
The AI expert warns a major disaster is inevitable without government regulation, and that humanity is rushing towards a destination nobody wants to reach..
Russell explains why leading AI CEOs privately admit there is a non‑trivial risk of human extinction, why they feel trapped in a trillion‑dollar “AGI race,” and why he was told that only a Chernobyl‑scale AI disaster might force gov...
Xue Lan, a professor at Tsinghua University, said reforming global governance requires pragmatic, action-oriented cooperation. As major global agreements become increasingly difficult to achieve, he urged countries to make steady progres...


Highlights•AI as automated respondents reduces citizen-initiated contact; learning-driven AI worsens the effect more than rule-driven AI.•Respondent image, channel, purpos...

Highlights•Examining public expectations and knowledge of AI through the theoretical lens of technological frames.•There are similarities and differences in the public’s ...

Highlights•AI adoption is a continuum rather than a dichotomous.•The underlying causes of global governmental AI adoption divide is explored.•Explainable Artificial Intel...