From October 25th to 27th, a brainstorming session from the world’s top minds gathered in Lingang, Shanghai. From responding to current global challenges to future artificial intelligence governance, from the frontiers of life sciences to the boundaries of physical sciences, nearly 300 of the world's top scientists, including 11 Nobel Prize winners, gathered at the 2024 World's Top Scientists Forum. Starting from different majors, they interpreted their dream of using technology to shape a sustainable future and using technology to enhance the common well-being of mankind.
"Science or technology itself is neutral, but technology sometimes brings some unexpected threats and challenges, including global warming, regional disputes and other world problems." 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics The winner, David Gross, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, said in his keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the World's Top Scientists Forum, "This requires global scientists to cooperate to deal with the ever-changing world problems and guide science for good. , young scientists need to stand up and take the lead.”
At this year’s forum of the world’s top scientists, AI-related topics occupied an important part. When AI becomes a new productivity, are we ready to deal with the "double-edged sword" effect brought by AI? At the Intelligent Science Conference of the world's top scientists, top experts and industry professionals discussed how to build a global AI regulatory system.
"In the past decades or even centuries, scientific research has been facing some difficulties. Now, with the development of AI, scientific research will usher in a series of new breakthroughs." Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dean of the Institute of Intelligence, Peking University, Beijing E Weinan, director of the University's International Machine Learning Research Center, analyzed that AI has become an indispensable tool in many scientific researches. For example, the AlphaFold series of models has the ability to predict protein single chains, complexes, and complex biomolecule structures, solving fundamental problems that have plagued biological sciences for many years.
"Artificial intelligence does not bring threats as soon as it is born, but opportunities are accompanied by threats." Faced with the ethical risks and security challenges behind AI, Gong Ke, executive director of the China New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Strategy Research Institute, said at the forum , there are now hundreds of governance frameworks or declarations issued by governments, international organizations or well-known international conferences, but they are "fragmented" and there are considerable problems in coordination and implementation. He believes that accelerating the establishment of a global AI governance framework is a top priority.
Christopher Pissarides, winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics and professor at the London School of Economics, is particularly concerned about the impact of AI on future human work. He believes that the era of widespread application of AI may be coming, but the current applications of AI are still very limited. According to its theoretical research and social surveys, most AI application scenarios are relatively simple now, and the main applications are image recognition and monitoring. AI technology may constitute a new competition between humans and machines and reduce the well-being of employees. He called on: "While technology improves productivity, it should also be able to continue to improve the well-being of employees."
As the winner of the 2024 Association of World's Top Scientists Award "Intelligent Science or Mathematics Award", Jon Kleinberg, Chair Professor of Computer Science and Information Science at Cornell University in the United States, said: "Computer scientists not only need to 'ensure that what we build The design of algorithms and choices can benefit mankind, and it also requires in-depth cooperation with experts in the fields of economics, sociology, behavioral science, law, and policy research. I hope we can go all out and creatively solve these problems."