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The drafting of the Global Guidelines on Industrial Embodied Intelligence was officially launched on July 17 during a forum on global artificial intelligence standardization at the 2026 World AI Conference & High-level Meeting on Global AI Governance.
Guided by the fundamental needs of the global manufacturing industry's smart transformation and industrial upgrading, the guidelines would focus on key technologies and governance areas, including industrial embodied intelligence, environmental perception and state recognition, autonomous planning and dynamic decision-making, multi-agent collaborative operations, natural human-machine interaction, and functional safety and trustworthy ethics.
Amandeep Singh Gill, under-secretary-general and special envoy for digital & emerging technologies of the United Nations, said AI governance and standards are not evolving along separate tracks. Rather, they are interdependent and mutually reinforcing.
He emphasized that standards should uphold human dignity and safety, while technical indicators need to be dynamically adjusted as systems evolve. He called for innovative approaches to standardization in design, implementation, and enforcement to enable developers to be involved throughout the complete life cycle of systems, including standard creation, integrated tools and procedures, and oversight.
During his keynote report, Song Haitao, a member of the United Nations' Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence, systematically analyzed the rapid evolution of global AI governance, which shifted from principle-based initiatives to institutionalized implementation and multi-stakeholder collaboration.
Song introduced the mission, progress, and key preliminary findings of the UN's Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence and shared China's practical achievements in AI top-level design, open-source ecosystem development, and international capacity development.