On January 31, the 2024 World Digital Education Conference "Artificial Intelligence and Digital Ethics" parallel meeting was held at the Shanghai World Expo Center. The conference aims to share policies and experiences in various countries regarding the application of artificial intelligence education and promote important consensus on the development of artificial intelligence to empower education. Wang Guangyan, Vice Minister of Education, Wang Ping, Deputy Secretary-General of Shanghai Municipal People's Government, Ali Farabi, President of Kazakhstan State University, former Minister of Education and Science of Kazakhstan Tuimebayev Jansent, and Secretary-General of the World Internet Conference, attended the meeting and delivered speeches.

Wang Guangyan pointed out that the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation are accelerating the evolution, and artificial intelligence, as its core driving force, will further release the huge energy accumulated by previous scientific and technological revolutions, and ensure safety, credibility and reliability have become the common value pursuit of artificial intelligence development. Wang Guangyan emphasized that in recent years, the Chinese government has always adhered to the concept of "people-oriented", adhered to the purpose of "digital for good", actively built an education system in the intelligent era, actively explored and promoted the innovative application of artificial intelligence, scientifically avoided ethical and security risks, proposed basic norms for generative artificial intelligence, and created a good environment for the development of artificial intelligence. Wang Guangyan proposed that intelligent technology should be used to change students' learning, education and teaching, school governance and education ecology, build a new form of "teacher-spirited students" three-way teaching, promote the transformation from knowledge imparting to advanced ability cultivation and comprehensive quality cultivation, and coordinate the promotion of digital education, digital technology, digital humanities, and digital ethics, so that artificial intelligence can better benefit teachers and students.

At the meeting, Yao Qizhi, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and director of the Institute of Cross Information of Tsinghua University, Colin Bailey, president of Queen Mary University in London and academician of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Zheng Qinghua, president of Tongji University and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and Christian Bessier, chairman of the Council of the International Federation of Artificial Intelligence and research director of the French National Science Research Center, respectively gave keynote reports on issues such as the transformation and persistence of higher education in the digital era, the future development direction of artificial intelligence technology, the application ethics of artificial intelligence in education, the empowerment of artificial intelligence to create a new future education pattern, the prospects of artificial intelligence teachers, risks and limitations. Experts and scholars from UNESCO, the International Science Council, Springer Nature Group, and Canada, Qatar, Kenya, the United States, China and other countries shared cases, and held a roundtable dialogue on "technical development, ethical norms and education application governance of generative artificial intelligence", exploring strategies for empowering education development in artificial intelligence and promoting the forefront of digital ethics.

The meeting released the "Artificial Intelligence Empowers Education Development" initiative. The conference was guided by the Department of Science, Technology and Information Technology and Higher Education of the Ministry of Education, sponsored by the China Society of Higher Education, and hosted by Tongji University. More than 200 representatives from universities, research institutes and industry enterprises from more than 60 countries and regions, and across the country attended the conference.

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