Shanghai 2025 AI Chip Summit Spotlights Risks, Innovation

At the Shanghai 2025 Global AI Chip Summit, Chinese companies showcased new-generation NPUs and open-source initiatives, signaling robust domestic innovation and investment in AI hardware. Leading researchers and tech figures — including Geoffrey Hinton, Max Tegmark, Sam Altman and Elon Musk — warned that rapid AI advancement could pose severe or even existential risks within years if not carefully governed. Philip Tetlock argued that large language models should be integrated into forecasting and decision‑making to improve predictions and augment human judgment. Business leaders were cautioned that AI alone does not guarantee results and that experts must shape inputs and interpret outputs to distinguish strategy from spectacle. Commentators noted AI is shifting from a tool to an ambient environment that reshapes cognition, identity and social relations, and an allegory warned leaders may exploit AGI promises to consolidate power. Speakers called for urgent, nuanced governance, rigorous expertise, and public awareness to harness AI’s benefits while mitigating societal and political dangers.