Fostering Dialogue and Strategic Partnership: 2025 Fudan University (FDU) and Singapore Management University (SMU) Forum on AI, Digital Governance and Sustainable Societies Successfully Concluded

Singapore, Singapore--(Newsfile Corp. - October 6, 2025) - On 29 September, the "2025 Fudan University (FDU) and Singapore Management University (SMU) Forum on AI, Digital Governance and Sustainable Societies", jointly hosted by Fudan University (FDU) and Singapore Management University (SMU), successfully concluded. The Forum brought together experts, scholars, and industry leaders from China, Singapore, Germany and beyond to engage in in-depth discussions on the themes of artificial intelligence, digital governance, and sustainable societies.

The Forum delved into the opportunities and challenges presented by the rise of AI. It sought to promote robust governance frameworks that ensure safety, fairness, and transparency while stressing the critical need to leverage collective knowledge, foster cross-disciplinary collaboration, and facilitate data sharing. The ultimate goal is to develop and apply AI technologies in ways that ensure responsibility, inclusion and long-term societal impact, thereby helping to build more resilient and sustainable societies. A key takeaway was the unanimous consensus among participants that AI has evolved beyond a mere technological frontier to become a powerful societal force that is fundamentally reshaping how we live, work, and govern, prompting a collective call for nations to bolster cooperation and work together to build a global AI governance system that is trustworthy, collaborative, and mutually beneficial.

Keynote Addresses: Multi-Dimensional Perspectives on the Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Era

Keynote speakers Prof FU Xiaoming (top left), Assoc Prof ZHU Feida (top right), Assoc Prof Gilad ABIRI (bottom left) and Prof LI Qiang (bottom right) shared their insights on the core issues of AI, digital governance, and sustainable societies from different perspectives.

Professor FU Xiaoming, an IEEE Fellow and a member of both the Academia Europaea and the National Academy of Science and Engineering (Germany), Chair Professor at the Institute of Computer Science, University of Göttingen, Germany, as well as Chief Scientist of the Social Intelligence Research Centre at Fudan, delivered a keynote address titled "Social Mobility in Ancient Empires and the Digital Age - Reimagining History and Contemporary Society through AI for the Social Sciences and Humanities". His methodology combines traditional prosopographical research with cutting-edge machine learning algorithms and extracts social mobility patterns from vast historical records. This approach makes large-scale, cross-civilisational comparative studies possible. The research not only illuminates the mechanisms by which institutional designs in ancient empires influenced social mobility but also provides critical historical insights for crafting governance policies in contemporary digital societies.

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