SI Participates in Exchange with China Academy of ICT

On October 31st, 2025, the Simon Institute for Longterm Governance (SI) participated in the “International Exchange on AI Governance,” hosted by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) in Beijing. CAICT is a research institute sitting under China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Its AI Institute coordinates the Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance of China (AIIA), plays a major role in domestic and international standardization efforts, and conducts safety evaluations of Chinese AI models.  

The exchange on October 31st brought together international experts from CAICT, AliResearch’s AI Governance Center, the Beijing Institute of Artificial Intelligence Safety and Governance and the Institute of Automation at the Chinese Academy of Sciences to explore three critical questions: 

• How can the United Nations serve as a coordination forum for balancing AI innovation and risk and addressing fragmented regulatory approaches?
• How can actors and nations improve the sharing of respective AI governance practices to enhance mutual learning? 
• How can voluntary mechanisms like China’s Global Initiative on AI Governance and AI Safety & Security Commitments promote responsible AI development, and how can they best pool international expert knowledge?

During the first part of the seminar, SI’s CEO Max Stauffer delivered a keynote on the state of AI governance at the UN and the comparative advantages and limitations of the UN as a forum in addressing AI as a general-purpose technology as well as strategic competition between AI powers.

During the second half of the seminar, CAICT’s Hu Naying gave a keynote on the practical implementation of the AIIA’s AI Security & Safety Commitments initiative, including mechanisms for enhancing the effectiveness of such commitments.

Participants explored pathways for integrating AI capacity-building with safety discussions in international fora, enhancing transparency around companies’ progress on their safety commitments, and advancing exchanges on frontier AI governance among leading developers.

SI at the “International Exchange on AI Governance” hosted by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) in Beijing 

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While in China, the SI team also had the opportunity to engage with other AI governance stakeholders: 

On October 29th, SI CEO Max Stauffer participated in a panel at the Alliance of National and International Science Organizations (ANSO) General Conference, speaking in the AI Safety & Governance session alongside Professor Zhang Linghan (China University of Political Science and Law) and Xu Jia (Shanghai AI Laboratory).

On October 30th, Max spoke about managing strategic AI competition at the AI Safety and Governance Forum, hosted by the Beijing Institute of AI Safety and Governance, joining a panel with academics and industry experts.

SI CEO Max Stauffer speaking at the Alliance of National and International Science Organizations (ANSO) Conference on AI Safety & Governance

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If you’d like to learn more about SI’s work and international engagement on AI governance, please do not hesitate to get in touch with our team at contact@simoninstitute.ch.