Governance and Innovation in the AI Wave: Experts and Scholars Exploring AI Empowering Business, Economics, Finance & Healthcare
Days ago, the AI Empowering Business, Economics, Finance & Healthcare 2024-2025 Academic Summit of the Digital Economy Open Research Platform, hosted by the Digital Economy Open Research Platform, School of Management and Economics (SME), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-Shenzhen), and Shenzhen Finance Institute (SFI), was held in Shenzhen. It brought together leading experts and scholars from academia and industry to discuss the opportunities, challenges, and new governance paths facing various sectors of the social economy in the wave of AI technology. The summit, committed to fostering interdisciplinary theoretical innovation and practical dialogues, was closely aligned with China’s strategic deployment to promote the “AI+” initiative.
In his opening remarks, Xiong Wei, Academic Dean of SME and SFI, CUHK-Shenzhen, warmly welcomed the attendees and introduced SME’s rapid development over the past 11 years. He pointed out that this summit aimed to provide an interdisciplinary dialogue platform to explore in depth how AI impacts key areas such as the labor market, international trade, financial risk control, and healthcare.
Keynote Speeches
Topic: Opportunities and Challenges in Integrated Development of AI and Social Economy
Moderator: Xiong Wei, Academic Dean of SME and SFI, CUHK-Shenzhen
Guests: Li Yang, a Member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Chairman of the National Institution for Finance & Development; Bei Duoguang, President of the Chinese Academy of Financial Inclusion, Renmin University of China; Li Zhenhua, Dean of the Ant Group Research Institute; and Cheng Shijun, Executive Dean of the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Annual Work Review
Speaker: Shen Rui, Assistant Dean (Research) of SME, CUHK-Shenzhen
Scholars’ Talk
Moderator: Ai Chunrong, Associate Dean of SME, CUHK-Shenzhen, and Associate Director of SFI
Topic: Measuring Judicial Bias with Artificial Intelligence: Evidence from Chinese IP Courts
Speaker: Fang Hanming, Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania
Topic: How Digitization Has Transformed International Trade?
Speaker: Wei Shangjin, Professor of Columbia Business School and School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, US
Later, the participants held parallel sessions around “Human+AI,” “AI Impact on Human Capital,” “AI and Human Behavior,” and “AI Application and Investment.” They came from Peking University, University of Toronto, Hubei University of Economics, Southern University of Science and Technology, New York University, Tsinghua University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shenzhen University, Business School of Sichuan University, City University of Hong Kong, CUHK-Shenzhen, Zhejiang University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, and other institutions.
