TechCould AI Divide the World Again? How Can China and the US Avoid Confrontation?

Speakers at the opening forum of the 2026 Insight China Global Forum examined risks from AI’s rapid development and how China and the United States can prevent it from becoming a new tool of great-power confrontation. They highlighted autonomous AI action and weaponization, while historian Wang Gungwu warned that separate AI systems could divide the world again.