Theoretical Conception of China's Artificial Intelligence Governance:Reflections on Singapore's Digital Economy Agreement
In the era of digital economy,artificial intelligence(AI)is becoming a new engine to promote economic develop-ment.With the increasingly fierce competition and game between China and the United States,China's current AI development is hampered by and the AI governance theory needs to be reconstructed urgently under the scientific and technological blockade and sanctions by the United States.As a pioneer in digital economy agreements worldwide,Singapore hascompleted negotiations on four digital economy agreements with five countries since 2020.At the same time,Singapore is also an advocate in the field of global AI governance.Sorting out the AI rules in Singapore's digital economy agreement and summarizing advanced develop-ment experiencecan better provide reference and inspiration for China's AI governance.The common goal of theAI rules in the Singapore's digital economy agreement can be summarized as"building an International Algovernance framework",and the way to achieve this goal is to use Article 8.61-R of the United Kingdom-Singapore Digital Economy Agreement(UKSDEA)as a model to give full play to the power of international organizations,carry out international cooperation in the field of AI,and pro-mote the"ethical,credible,safe and responsible"development of AI technology.In the future,China should start from both do-mestic and international dimensions to construct AI governance programs with Chinese characteristics.At the domestic level,Arti-ficial Intelligence Law,which is being studied and formulated,can consider adopting the"promotive legislation"mode to better boost the high-quality development of China's AI industry;at the international level,China should continue to promote the acces-sion process of the Digital Economy Partnership Agreement(DEPA),actively apply to join the Global Partnership on Artificial In-telligence(GPAI),establish a riskbasedsupervision,and formulate a systematic international AI governance framework as soon as possible.
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