The 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance convened in Shanghai on July 18, with dozens of government agency representatives discussing global governance challenges, widening access and sharing of AI technologies, and mitigating AI security risks. China urged support for the UN Global AI Governance Dialogue and the International AI Science Panel to play an active role, provide more international public goods, help strengthen capacity building

The 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance convened in Shanghai on July 18, with dozens of government agency representatives discussing global governance challenges, widening access and sharing of AI technologies, and mitigating AI security risks. China urged support for the UN Global AI Governance Dialogue and the International AI Science Panel to play an active role, provide more international public goods, help strengthen capacity building in the Global South and advance a broadly consensual global AI governance framework; the proposals drew positive responses.