Ai governance in 2019 - a year in review: observations of 50 global experts

• Author: Zhu Tingting
• Position: Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Law, School of Law, Renmin University of China
• Pages: 367-369

FRONTIERS OF LAW IN CHINA

VOL. 15 SEPTEMBER 2020 NO. 3

DOI 10.3868/s050-009-020-0020-8

ACADEMIC NEWS

AI GOVERNANCE IN 2019 — A YEAR IN REVIEW: OBSERVATIONS OF

50 GLOBAL EXPERTS

On April 30, 2020, the Shanghai Institute for Science of Science held an international

conference on artificial intelligence (AI) governance and released an important report, AI

Governance in 2019 — A Year in Review: Observations of 50 Global Experts. This report

promotes exchanges and communication between academic researchers, policymakers,

and industry practitioners in this rapidly changing (AI) field.1 GUO Rui, a law professor

at Renmin University of China (RUC) who specializes in the ethics and governance of AI,

offered his view. Professor GUO is a member of the Sub-Committee of User Interface,

National Standardization Committee of Information Technology, and the Lead Expert for

the Research Group on the Ethics of AI appointed by AI Working Group, Standardization

Administration of the People’s Republic of China (SAC). He participated in the drafting

of the first AI standardization white paper (published in 2018) and led the drafting of the

AI Ethical Risks of AI Research Report (published in May 2019 by AI Working Group,

SAC).

AI Governance in 2019 — A Year in Review: Observations of 50 Global Experts

attracted contributions from 50 world-class experts (44 institutions), from AI scientists,

academic researchers, industry representatives to policy experts, among others, including

some world-renowned experts: FU Ying, former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and

Director of the Center for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University;

John Hopcroft, a professor at Cornell University and a winner of the Turing Award; Irakli

Beridze, the Head of the Centre for AI and Robotics at the United Nations, who was one

of the recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize; Eva Kaili, a member of the European

Parliament; YANG Qiang, a professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and

Technology and General Chair of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial

Intelligence (AAAI) 2021; Francesca Rossi, the AI Ethics Global Leader and a member

of the EU High-Level Expert Group on AI; Allan Dafoe, Director of the Centre for the

Governance of AI, University of Oxford; Wendell Wallach, a professor and a science and

technology ethicist at Yale University, etc. This group of experts covers a wide range of

regional developments and perspectives, including those in the United States, Europe, and

1 See AI Governance in 2019 — A Year in Review: Observations of 50 Global Experts, Shanghai Institute

for Science of Science (Shanghai), (Apr., 2020), available at https://www.aigovernancereview.com/ (last

visited Jun. 15, 2019).