What they say at WAIC

Zhou Bowen, director and chief scientist of Shanghai's Pujiang Lab

AI has evolved from simple question-answering to agents capable of invoking tools, but uncertainties exist regarding their behavioral boundaries and loyalty. Technology needs full integration with social governance, and AI's benefits and risks are global in nature, requiring close international cooperation.

Most current views see AI as a tool for science, but I believe AI should become a revolutionary tool, helping scientists break through cognitive blind spots, reconstructing relationships among researchers, tools, and objects, and compressing scientific discovery cycles.