On August 20–21, the third session of the United Nations' Global Dialogue series on Artificial Intelligence and Human Development was held in Xi'an, China, convening policymakers, technical experts, and representatives from academia and culture to discuss the transformations that AI is bringing to human civilization and social development. Prof. Gu Qunye, Dean of the Graduate School of SUAD, was invited to attend the dialogue and deliver a keynote address.

Focusing on embodied AI and robotics, the session explored how rapidly spreading intelligent systems affect education, employment, culture and sustainable development. In his speech, Prof. Gu proposed a new framework for understanding AI: rather than framing it through the binary logic of control and being controlled, he suggested seeing AI as "humanity's child"—now in its infancy, nurtured by the data we feed it, and maturing through real-world interaction—advocating a new relationship in which humans and AI grow and are governed together.