WAICO reference: the founding documents

01Document one

The Action Plan for Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence

Released on 26 July 2025 at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference and the High-level Conference on Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence in Shanghai, with the full text distributed by Xinhua. The plan frames AI as an international public good, invokes the UN Pact for the Future and its Global Digital Compact, and sets out thirteen actions built around the principles of serving the people, respecting sovereignty, development orientation, security and controllability, fairness and inclusiveness, and open cooperation. It is the programmatic document behind WAICO.

Issued 26 July 2025 Venue WAIC, Shanghai Structure 13 action points Download the full text ↓

Seize the opportunities together

Calls on governments, international organizations, companies, research institutions, civil society and citizens to accelerate digital infrastructure, push frontier innovation and spread AI application worldwide, in service of the UN 2030 Agenda and global challenges.

Promote innovation and development

Open, shared innovation: international science and technology cooperation platforms, an innovation-friendly policy environment, coordinated regulation, technology transfer, fewer technical barriers, and open "AI plus" application scenarios.

Empower every industry

Push AI into manufacturing, consumption, commerce, healthcare, education, agriculture and poverty alleviation; deepen applications such as autonomous driving and smart cities; share intelligent infrastructure and best practice across borders.

Accelerate digital infrastructure

Build out clean power, next-generation networks, computing capacity and data centres; work toward a unified computing standard system; support the Global South to develop and genuinely apply AI on its own terms.

Build an open, diverse ecosystem

Transnational open-source communities and safe, reliable open-source platforms; open sharing of basic resources; lower thresholds for innovation; open-source compliance systems and security guidelines; open flow of non-sensitive technical resources.

Supply high-quality data

Lawful, orderly and free data flows; a global data-sharing mechanism; jointly built high-quality datasets; personal privacy and data security; diverse corpora that work against discrimination and bias.

Answer the energy and environment question

A "sustainable AI" agenda: energy- and water-efficiency standards for AI, green computing such as low-power chips and efficient algorithms, and AI put to work on green transition, climate response and biodiversity.

Build consensus on standards and norms

Dialogue among national standards bodies through the ITU, ISO and IEC; faster technical standards for safety, industry and ethics; a scientific, transparent, inclusive normative framework; active work against algorithmic bias.

Let the public sector lead deployment

Public services deploy reliable AI first, in healthcare, education and transport, with regular security evaluation, respect for patents and copyright, strict data and privacy protection, and lawful, orderly trading of training data.

Carry out security governance

Timely risk assessment and response; a security governance framework with broad consensus; classified and hierarchical management; risk testing and evaluation systems; threat-information sharing; traceability of AI services against misuse and abuse.

Implement the Global Digital Compact

The United Nations as the main channel: help developing countries bridge the digital divide, and support the International AI Scientific Panel and the Global Dialogue on AI Governance operating under the UN framework.

Cooperate on capacity building

Leading AI countries support developing ones through infrastructure cooperation, joint laboratories, mutual recognition of security assessment, education and training, industry matchmaking and shared datasets, with particular attention to women and children, to bridge the intelligence gap.

Govern with many hands

Inclusive governance platforms built on public interest and broad participation: dialogue among AI companies, think tanks and international forums that keep researchers, developers and regulators of all countries in technical and policy communication.

02Document two

Xi Jinping's keynote to the 2026 World AI Conference

Delivered at the opening of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and the High-level Meeting on Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence in Shanghai, this is the address that marked WAICO's establishment: the speech calls the organization's founding a milestone, describes AI as a symphony of global cooperation rather than a solo performance, and organizes China's position into four points.

Delivered July 2026 Occasion WAIC opening · High-level Meeting Structure 4 points + commitments Download the full text ↓

President Xi Jinping delivering the keynote at the opening of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Shanghai — President Xi Jinping delivers the keynote at the opening of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and the High-level Meeting on Global Governance of AI, Shanghai.

Point 1

Openness and win-win cooperation

AI as a new engine of global growth, moving from the digital world into the physical one. Encourage open source and open collaboration, and let AI technological innovation, industrial development and application scenarios advance together across all sectors.

Point 2

Risk awareness, safety and controllability

AI should be a trustworthy tool. Build legal and regulatory frameworks, technology monitoring, risk warning and emergency response; keep AI always under human control; and oppose stretching the concept of national security in AI, or placing one country's security above everyone else's.

Point 3

Inclusiveness and mutual learning

AI must not erode the diversity of civilizations or the uniqueness of national cultures. Shape its values with the common values of humanity, and use it to deepen understanding and exchange between civilizations.

Point 4

Genuine multilateralism

Give the United Nations its central role, align AI development strategies, governance rules and technical standards, and establish a globally recognized governance framework as soon as possible, with capacity building for the Global South so AI creates no new historical injustices.

Commitments announced in the speech

What China put on the table for the next five years

5,000 training opportunities in AI-related specialized workshops for developing countries.
International AI application cooperation centers for ASEAN, the Arab League, the African Union, CELAC, the SCO and BRICS countries.
Deployment of the "Mazu" intelligent weather early-warning system in 30 countries.

Provenance. Both documents on this page are official texts: the Action Plan as released through Xinhua and carried on the Chinese government network, and the keynote as published for the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference. The downloads are the source copies held by this project. Summaries above are editorial condensations; where wording matters, read the full text.

Related. The founding roster and this series' alignment with it are on the International page. Independent academic background on where WAICO sits in the wider field (not an official document): Guey, Bougault, Zhang, de Moura and Gomes, "WAICO: Mapping an Emerging Institution in the Global AI Governance Regime Complex", working paper, June 2026, arXiv:2606.23860 ↗.

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The WAICO founding documents

Twenty-nine member states across five continents