Organizers

• Global China Academy, UK
• College of Arts and Media, Tongji University, China
• Law School of Tongji University, China
• ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, Lancaster University, UK

Programme

08:30-09:00 Registration

09:00-10:00 Opening Session of GCD IX

Room: C501 Conference Hall, Sino-French Centre

Chair: Professor LI Linxue FGCA, Dean of College of Arts and Media, Director of Centre of Energy and Thermodynamic Architecture, Tongji University, China

09:00-09:20 Greetings (5 minutes each):

• Professor ZHAO Qizheng, Dean of the School of Journalism at Renmin University of China, former Director of the State Council Information Office, and former Vice Mayor of Shanghai, China
• Professor Lü Peiming is the Executive Vice President of Tongji University, China
• Professor WANG Lei, Professor at the School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Tongji University; Council Member of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence; Secretary-General of the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Society
• Professor Xiangqun Chang FRSA FGCA, President of the Global China Academy, UK

09:20-10:00 Keynote speakers (15 minutes each):

• AI, Ethics and the Humanities in the UK, Professor Tony McEnery, Chair of Global China Academy Council; Distinguished Professor at Lancaster University, UK [pre-recorded]
• Judicial Reform in China in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: The Contest between Justice and Efficiency, Professor JIANG Huiling, Dean of the School of Law at Tongji University and Director of the Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center for AI Social Governance, China

10:00-10:05 Group photo

10:10-11:20 Panel 1: Ethical Frameworks and Accountability in Artificial Intelligence

Chair: Professor LIN Sijie, Professor at the College of Environmental Science and Engineering; Deputy Director of the Graduate School, Tongji University, China

Speakers (12 minutes each):

• Irresponsible AI: Deconstructing the Responsible AI Narrative, Professor Joe Burton, International Security, Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion (PPR) at Lancaster University, UK [pre-recorded]
• Generative AI: Ethics, Reliability, and Representation, Dr Niall Curry FRSA SFHEA, Senior Lecturer in TESOL and Applied Linguistics within the Department of Languages, Information, and Communications at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
• Auditing Work: Exploring the New York City Algorithmic Bias Audit Regime, Ms Lara Groves, Senior Researcher at the Ada Lovelace Institute, UK
• Smart Governance: Starting from the Logic of the ‘D-Industry’, Professor ZHANG Xiaodong FGCA and Non-Executive Chinese Chair of the Global China Academy in the UK; CEO of the Agile Think Tank; and Professor and former Director of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research Institute at Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China

Q&A

11:20-11:35 Coffee/tea break

11:35-12:45 Panel 2: Artificial Intelligence in Society Building and Governance

Chair: Professor LI Boyi, Secretary of GCA Chinese Council, Professor of Management, School of Business Administration, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China

Speakers (12 minutes each):

• Governance in the Age of AI: Exploring New Paradigms, Mr Martin Garthwaite, Account Excellence Manager, Co-Chair of the Social Mobility Network PwC, UK
• The Wuxi Case of AI Empowering Modern Urban Governance, Mr HU Yi, Director of the Wuxi Municipal Data Bureau, China
• The Rise of Data-ism and the Digital Transformation of Urban Governance, Dr HUANG Hui, CEO of Shanghai Tianlv Software incorporated and the Honorary President of the Shanghai Information Society, and Mr DU Yichao, PhD Researcher at the Institute of Advanced Studies and Department of Anthropology at University College London, UK; Director of the Wuxi Institute of New Culture, China
• Ethical Evaluation and Governance of Generative AI (AIGC) Algorithms, Professor LI Benqian, Director and Distinguished Professor of the Institute of Intelligent Communication, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Discussion, Q&A

12:45-13:45 Lunch

13:45-14:55 Panel 3: Global Shifts in Perceptions and Attitudes in the AI Era

Chair: Mr Kai Laing, Event Officer of Global China Academy; Director of Business Development of MEL Science, UK

Speakers (10 minutes each):

• Under the radar? Examining the evaluation of foundation models, Mr Elliot Jones, Senior Researcher at the Ada Lovelace Institute, UK
• The Evolution and Logic of Western Attitudes and Perceptions of China over the Past 200 Years – Analysis Based on AI Large Models and Internet Archive Data, Professor GONG Weigang, Director of the Media Big Data Research Centre at the School of Sociology, Wuhan University, UK
• AI-Driven Workplace Transformation and the Skill Development of Graduates, Mr Ed Holroyd Pearce, Co-Founder and President of Virtual Internships, UK
• Artificial Intelligence or Human Anchors? Audience Perception of News Broadcasting, Professor Shuhua Zhou, Distinguished Chair Professor of Media and Communication at City University of Hong Kong, China

Q&A

14:55-15:10 Coffee/tea break

15:10-16:20 Panel 4 AI Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Health, Media and Communication

Chair: Professor QIAN Yufang, Associate Fellow of the Global China Academy, Professor at the School of Foreign Languages, Zhejiang Gongshang University, and Director of the Corpus and Discourse Research Institute, China

Speakers (12 minutes each):

• The Multimodal Corpora of Gerontic Discourse in China: Theory and Practice, Professor GU Yueguo FGCA, Chief Expert of the Key Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Human Language, Beijing Foreign Studies University, China
• AI and Ideological Bias: A Case Study on Dementia Representation, Dr Gavin Brookes is a Reader in Linguistics and a UKRI Future Leader Fellow with expertise in corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, and health communication at Lancaster University, UK
• AIGC and Human-Machine Symbiosis, Professor SHEN Yang, dual-appointed professor of School of Journalism and School of Artificial Intelligence, Director of the Metaverse Culture Lab and New Media Research Centre at Tsinghua University, China
• Cross-Media Art and Communication in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Professor LI Linxue FGCA, Dean of College of Arts and Media, Director of Centre of Energy and Thermodynamic Architecture, Tongji University, China

Q&A

16:20-17:20 Closing Session

Chair: Professor WANG Xin, Associate Fellow of Global China Academy, Head of Department of Communication, College of Arts and Media, Director of Research Centre for Chinese Discourse and Global Communication at Tongji University, China  

16.20-16:55 Closing remarks (15 minutes each):

• Geopolitics and Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence: Lessons from the Past 40 Years, Professor Madeline Carr, Professor of Global Politics and Cybersecurity at University College London, UK
• The Cultural Theory of Globalization and the Advent of the Artificial Intelligence Era, Professor BING Zheng FGCA and Chinese Chair of Global China Academy Council, Former Vice-President of Jilin University, former Vice-President of Chinese Sociological Association, China

16:55-17:10 Presentation of certificates to GCA Fellows

Introduction of GCA and the Fellowships: Professor Xiangqun Chang FRSA FGCA, President of the Global China Academy, Honorary Professor of University College London (2015-20), UK

Presenters:

• Professor HOU Shiyuan FGCA, Academician and former Associate President and former Director of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
• Professor XIE Lizhong FGCA, former head of Department of Sociology, Peking University; former President of Chinese Sociological Association, China; Fellow and Chinese President of Global China Academy, UK

Recipients:

• China: GCA Fellows, Associate Fellows and Institutional Fellow
• Overseas: GCA Associate Fellows, Associate Fellows and Institutional Fellow

Group photo (Chair, all FGCAs including presenters and new Fellows)

17:10-17:20 Presentation of the Young Scholars’ Paper Award

Presenters:

• Professor Xiangqun Chang FRSA FGCA, President of Global China Academy; Honorary Professor of University College London (2015–20), UK
• Ms ZHANG Yanli, The Party Secretary of the College of Arts and Media at Tongji University, China

Recipients: Five

Group photo (Chair, presenters and recipients of all the Young Scholars’ Paper Award)

17:20 Close

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17:30-18:30 Break / GCA Board of Trustees meeting (online and in person)

18:30-22:00 Dinner: celebrating the conclusion of the 9th Global China Dialogue

Venue: Kingswell Hotel Tongji, 50 Zhangwu Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai, China

• Chair: Mr Ian Stafford, founder of the Sport Club and a multiple award-winning English sports journalist, author (of 23 books) and broadcaster, UK
• Interpreter: Mr Kai Liang, Director of Business Development of MEL Science; Event Officer, Global China Academy. UK

18:30-18:40 Addresses (3 minutes each)

Speakers:

• Professor LI Yang, Academician and Former Vice-President of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
• Professor ZHU Guanglei FGCA, Former Vice-President of Nankai University, China
• Dr Yuan Cheng, Country Head of Russell Reynolds Associates Greater China; Trustee of the Board of Trustees, Global China Academy

18:40-21:30 Networking

21:30-21:55 Special addresses and screening of videos from absent speakers (5 minutes each in person; 2-3 minutes each video)

Speakers:

• Empowering the Integration of Finance and Real Economy in the AI Era, Dr CHEN Qiwei, Director of the Yangtze Delta FinTech Institute, East China Normal University; Founder of Asia Business Group and Asia Business Capital, China (in person)
• Artificial intelligence: challenges today, Patrick Baert, Professor of Social Theory at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge,UK (short video)
• Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence drive social change, Professor LIU Shaojie, Former Director of Research Centre for Studies of Sociological Theory and Methods, Renmin University of China; Chair Professor of School of Social Sciences and Political Science, Anhui University, China (short video)
• The Impact of AI on International Business and Management, Professor Martin Lockett, Department of International Business and Management, Former Dean of the Faculty of Business, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, UK (short video)
• Four Key Nodes for Effective Communication in the Future: From Content Engagement to Value Alignment, Professor YU Guoming, Executive Dean of the School of Journalism and Communication at Beijing Normal University, China (short video)
• Mr Matt Burney, Director of the British Council in China (tbc)

21:55-22:00 Group photo

22:00 Close

• Organizers and Co-organizers
• Sponsors
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Contacts:

• Dr ZHAO Longxuan (English +86 133 9181 6212)
• Mr LI Xiangke (Chinese +86 159 0042 1993)

Email:

• dialogue@gca-uk.org (English);
• amoffice@tongji.edu.cn (Chinese)
• Website: https://globalchinaacademy.org/global-china-dialogue-9/

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