From this year’s July 26th to 28th, 2025 WORLD AI CONFERENCE (WAIC) was convened in Shanghai, during which, Li JIN, the president of Fudan University and the dean of Fudan Development Institute was interviewed by CCTV WAIC special program.

President JIN introduced that, Fudan University has planned various initiatives in regards of international cooperation of AI technology, such as establishing platforms like the Global Center for AI Innovation Governance and Shanghai Academy of AI for Science (SAIS) and etc.

Fudan University also leverages existing international platforms, AI Innovation Forum and Shanghai Master Forum on Science for instances, emphasizing cooperation between the global south to promote inclusive access of AI technology. At the same time, Fudan University collaborates with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to hold the Youth Innovation Competition on Global Governance (YICGG), International Competition of Artificial Intelligence and etc. to extend global influences of our country in the field of AI. Genomics signs the beginning of the big data era, and that era has evolved now into the new era of AI. Fudan University will launch a new platform of science intelligence-NovaInspire, which provides scientists and students with assistance to complete the serial work from raising the question, designing the experiment, implementing the experiment, and analyzing the data, bringing a skyrocketing improvement in research efficiency. As a biologist, president JIN has 3 expectations for future AI technology. Firstly, future AI should better interact with human, to be more interactive, for that the intensity of interaction reveals the intensity of intelligence; Secondly, future AI should empower all the industries, and to be applied to more occupation and fields; Thirdly, future AI should be more specialized based on general applicability, to achieve better integration of general and specialized capabilities, possessing versatility while reaching a higher level on specialization.

Translated by Ruihan CHEN

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