China’s Premier Li Qiang called for urgent global consensus on artificial intelligence safety and governance, announcing a new international cooperation body.

China wants to work with other countries and has laid out its plans for the global governance of artificial intelligence.

China's Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu told a roundtable of representatives from over 30 countries, including Russia, South Africa, Qatar, South Korea and Germany, that China wanted the organisation to promote pragmatic cooperation in AI and was considering putting its headquarters in Shanghai.