AI Partnership for a Brighter Future is the theme of this year's World Artificial Intelligence Conference, bringing together policymakers, researchers and industry leaders from around the world. More than 140 forums are being held over the four-day event, many of them focusing on global AI governance. One such forum, hosted by Fudan University, explored ways to strengthen international cooperation and build a more inclusive framework for AI development.

During the forum, Fudan University released several of its latest research findings, including a Global AI Governance Index that evaluates international AI governance from the perspective of the Global South.

CHEN ZHIMIN, Vice President, Fudan University We have a series of reports to release today to showcase the perspective and stands of China and the Global South, and also solutions we provide. Secondly, we also launched a program to visiting scholars from the Global South.

WU BIN, Shanghai On Thursday, 29 countries signed an agreement in Shanghai on establishing the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization. China says the organization aims to promote international cooperation and global governance on AI. Many international guests participating in the World AI Conference this year have praised this approach.

GOLESTAN (SALLY) RADWAN, Chief Digital Officer, United Nations Environment Programme More AI cooperation is definitely needed. But I think UN also has a lot to contribute and especially, UNEP, we work on AI for the environment and on sustainable AI, so bring in that perspective I think is going to be very important. So we are ready to get involved and to help out and see what we can do on the environment side.

DANIL KERIMI, Vice-Chair, WIPO Independent Advisory Oversight Committee President Xi connected a very broad and global vision to very practical collaborative opportunities and gave the numbers when he says that we'll train this many students. That's a real number that will have to be met. I think it is exciting and the others will be closely following that and see what can be done.

China says on Friday that over the next five years, it will provide developing countries with 5,000 opportunities in AI training and seminar programs to further support global AI development and advance global AI capacity building. WU BIN, CGTN, Shanghai.