China's "Action Plan on Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence"

English translation of "人工智能全球治理行动计划 "

Artificial intelligence is a new area of human development, an important driving force for a new round of scientific and technological revolution and indus

trial transformation, and can also be an international public product that benefits mankind. Artificial intelligence brings unprecedented development opportunities, but also unprecedented risks and challenges. In the intelligent era, only by working together can we fully tap the potential of artificial intelligence while ensuring the security, reliability, controllability and fairness of its development, and ultimately implement the relevant commitments of the United Nations "Pact for the Future" and its annex "Global Digital Compact", and create an inclusive, open, sustainable, fair, safe and reliable digital and intelligent future for all.

To this end, we put forward the "Action Plan on Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence", calling on all parties to take effective actions and jointly promote the development and governance of global artificial intelligence based on the goals and principles of serving the people, respecting sovereignty, development-oriented, safe and controllable, fair and inclusive, and open cooperation.

1. Jointly seize the opportunities of artificial intelligence. We call on governments, international organizations, enterprises, scientific research institutions, non-governmental organizations and individual citizens to actively participate and work together to accelerate the construction of digital infrastructure, jointly explore cutting-edge innovations in artificial intelligence technology, promote the popularization and application of artificial intelligence on a global scale, and maximize the huge potential of artificial intelligence in enabling global economic and social development, helping to implement the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and responding to global challenges.

2. Promote the innovative development of artificial intelligence. Adhere to the spirit of openness and sharing, encourage bold attempts and explorations, build various international scientific and technological cooperation platforms, create an innovation-friendly policy environment, strengthen policy and regulatory coordination, promote technical cooperation and achievement transformation, reduce and eliminate technical barriers, jointly promote breakthroughs in innovation and sustainable development of artificial intelligence technology, deeply explore open application scenarios of “artificial intelligence+”, and enhance the level of innovation and development of global artificial intelligence.

3. Promote AI to empower all industries. Promote AI to empower industrial manufacturing, consumption, commercial circulation, medical care, education, agriculture, poverty reduction and other fields, promote the in-depth application of AI in scenarios such as autonomous driving and smart cities, and build a rich, diverse, healthy and benevolent AI application ecosystem. Promote the construction and sharing of intelligent infrastructure, carry out cross-border AI application cooperation, exchange best practices, and jointly explore and promote AI to fully empower the real economy.

4. Accelerate the construction of digital infrastructure. Accelerate the construction of global clean electricity, new generation networks, intelligent computing power, data centers and other infrastructure, improve the layout of interoperable artificial intelligence and digital infrastructure, promote the construction of a unified computing power standard system, support countries, especially the Global South, to develop artificial intelligence technologies and services in accordance with their own national conditions, help the Global South truly access and apply artificial intelligence, and promote the inclusive and inclusive development of artificial intelligence.

5. Create a diversified, open and innovative ecosystem. Give full play to the role of various entities and platform mechanisms such as governments and industry and academia, jointly promote international exchanges and dialogues on AI governance, build transnational open source communities and safe and reliable open source platforms, promote the open sharing of basic resources, lower the threshold for technological innovation and application, avoid repeated investment and waste of resources, and promote the inclusiveness and accessibility of AI technology services. Promote the construction of an open source compliance system, clarify and implement the technical security guidelines of the open source community, promote the open sharing of development resources such as technical documents and interface documents, strengthen the construction of an open source ecosystem such as compatibility, adaptation and interconnection of upstream and downstream products, and realize the open flow of non-sensitive technical resources.

6. Actively promote the supply of high-quality data. Promote the development of artificial intelligence with high-quality data, cooperate to promote the orderly and free flow of data in accordance with the law, explore the construction of a global mechanism platform for data sharing, and cooperate to create high-quality data sets to inject more nutrients into the development of artificial intelligence. At the same time, actively maintain personal privacy and data security, improve the diversity of artificial intelligence data corpus, eliminate discrimination and prejudice, and promote, protect and preserve the diversity of the artificial intelligence ecosystem and human civilization.

7. Effectively respond to energy and environmental issues. Advocate the concept of “sustainable artificial intelligence”, support the continuous exploration of innovative resource-saving and environmentally friendly artificial intelligence development models, jointly formulate artificial intelligence energy efficiency and water efficiency standards, and promote green computing technologies such as low-power chips and efficient algorithms. Encourage dialogue and cooperation on energy conservation in artificial intelligence development and jointly find the best solutions. Promote artificial intelligence to empower green transformation and development, climate change response, biodiversity protection and other fields, expand the application of artificial intelligence technology in related fields, strengthen international cooperation, and share best practices.

8. Promote consensus on standards and norms. Support and promote dialogue among standard-setting bodies of various countries, rely on international standard organizations such as the International Telecommunication Union, the International Organization for Standardization, and the International Electrotechnical Commission, attach importance to the role of the industry, accelerate the formulation and revision of technical standards in key areas such as security, industry, and ethics, and establish a scientific, transparent, and inclusive normative framework in the field of artificial intelligence. Actively eliminate algorithmic bias, balance technological progress, risk prevention, and social ethics, and promote inclusiveness and interoperability of the standard system.

9. The public sector takes the lead in deploying applications. The public sectors of all countries should become leaders and demonstrators in the application and governance of artificial intelligence, actively prioritize the deployment of reliable artificial intelligence in public service fields such as medical care, education, and transportation, and strengthen international exchanges and cooperation. At the same time, the security of the above-mentioned artificial intelligence systems should be regularly evaluated, and intellectual property rights such as patents and software copyrights should be respected. Strictly abide by data and privacy protection, actively explore the legal and orderly transactions of training data, jointly promote the compliant and open use of data, and improve the level of public management and services.

10. Conduct AI security governance. Conduct AI risk assessment in a timely manner, propose targeted preventive measures, and build a security governance framework with broad consensus. Explore classification and grading management, establish an AI risk testing and assessment system, and promote threat information sharing and emergency response mechanism construction. Improve data security and personal information protection standards, and strengthen data security management in training data collection, model generation and other links. Increase investment in technology research and development, implement security development standards, and improve the explainability, transparency and security of AI. Explore the traceability management system for AI services to prevent the misuse and abuse of AI technology. Advocate the establishment of an open platform to share best practices and promote international cooperation in AI security governance on a global scale.

11. Jointly implement the Global Digital Compact. Actively implement the relevant commitments of the United Nations' Pact for the Future and its annex, the Global Digital Compact, adhere to the United Nations as the main channel, help developing countries bridge the digital divide and achieve fair and inclusive development as the goal, and promote the construction of an inclusive and fair multilateral global digital governance system on the basis of abiding by international law, respecting national sovereignty and development differences. Support the establishment of the International Artificial Intelligence Scientific Panel and the Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence Governance under the framework of the United Nations and their early operation, and conduct meaningful discussions on global governance of artificial intelligence, especially on promoting the safe, fair and inclusive development of artificial intelligence.

12. Strengthen international cooperation in AI capacity building. Place international cooperation in AI capacity building in a prominent position on the global AI governance agenda, and encourage leading AI countries to support developing countries in strengthening comprehensive capacity building in AI innovation, application, governance, etc. through practical actions such as cooperation in AI infrastructure construction, joint laboratory construction, joint security assessment mutual recognition platform construction, AI capacity building education and training, AI industry supply and demand matching activities, and joint AI high-quality data sets and corpora construction. Jointly improve the public's AI literacy and skills, especially protect and strengthen the digital and intelligent rights of women and children, and bridge the intelligence divide.

13. Build an inclusive governance model with multi-party participation. Support the establishment of an inclusive governance platform based on public interests and with the participation of various entities. Encourage AI companies in various countries to engage in dialogue and exchanges, learn from each other's application practice cases in different fields of AI, and promote AI innovation, application, and ethical and security cooperation in specific fields and scenarios. Encourage various research think tanks and international forums to build global and regional communication and cooperation platforms to ensure that AI researchers, developers and governance departments in various countries maintain technical and policy communication.

2025.7.26

(Google translated with human assistance, from 人工智能全球治理行动计划 https://www.gov.cn/yaowen/liebiao/202507/content_7033929.htm )