( July 17, 2026, 06:16 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: China’s 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference called for stronger international cooperation on AI governance in a chair’s statement issued Friday. The statement highlighted open-source development, data security and risk management, while backing an agreement establishing the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization, the first intergovernmental AI body. Countries should promote responsible AI innovation and strengthen safeguards for frontier models, it said. They should also support AI capacity building in the Global South, develop international trade and technical standards and reinforce the UN’s central role in global AI governance. The new organization will be open to all countries and aims to narrow the global AI divide, it added.Statement follows (in Chinese). ...
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