"Unlike real-life intimate relationships, AI-generated intimacy is fundamentally the product of affective computing, which lacks the embodied empathy and conflict of genuine social interactions. Current research generally views the relationship between users and AI chatbots as a form of ‘pseudo-intimacy' driven by users' continued emotional disclosure and marked by sycophancy."
Xin Yanyan, deputy secretary-general of The Center for Global AI Innovative Governance, Fudan University, proposing institutional approaches to curb the risks of AI-generated intimacy in an August interview with Fazhi Cankao, a bi-monthly law journal
"A work dismissed by mainstream as lacking artistic merit has been crowned by hundreds of millions on social media, who have turned it into a nationwide cultural phenomenon through jokes, memes and creative takes. This is a carnival of the digital age, a mild rebellion of ‘emotional democratization' against the elite's monopoly on cultural interpretation."
Yu Guoming, a professor at the School of Journalism and Communication at Beijing Normal University, on Niu Lai (Here Comes the Cow), a low-budget animated film created by a mother-and-son team that became an unexpected summer hit, in an interview with China Newsweek
"Macroeconomic impact cannot be measured solely by retail sales growth. We should also look at service consumption, rural incomes, logistics costs and business viability. Only when better supply and rising incomes reinforce each other can county-level consumption become a long-term driver of integrated urban-rural development."
Zhang Yina, director of the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) Fudan Big Data Consumption Lab, speaking about a recent MOFCOM document on boosting county-level consumption in an August interview with the 21st Century Business Herald
"The paradigm shift of foreign investment in China essentially mirrors the transition of China's economy from quantity to quality. The end point of this shift is not a simple choice between foreign investors staying or leaving, but whether it can foster a community of genuine innovation in China, where the global resources of foreign-funded enterprises integrate with China's innovative forces to jointly shape the technological standards and business models of the next era. Whether this goal can be achieved will ultimately depend on the wisdom and policy choices of decision-makers."
Sun Lijian, an economics professor at Fudan University in a recent interview with Shanghai Securities News, a newspaper under the Xinhua News Agency
"It was fine to sell robots as toys last year. But this year, next year and in the future, we have to be capable of creating real value."
Feng Zhenyu, CEO of Sichuan Embodied Intelligent Robot Technology, in an interview with news portal The Paper at the 2026 World Robot Conference held in Beijing from August 19 to 23
"The evolving multipolarity and escalating geopolitical tensions have driven nations to advance emerging technologies, intensifying technological competition and further reinforcing multipolarity and geopolitical rivalries. The risks and uncertainties associated with emerging technologies and nuclear weapons underscore the fragility of nuclear deterrence... Major military powers are fiercely competing over these emerging technologies. However, the absence of effective international regulations governing state interactions in these fields exacerbates the risks of spillover effects and conflict escalation."
Jiang Tianjiao, an associate professor at Fudan University in Shanghai, in his article "What is Nuclear Order?" for the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, an online magazine covering global security issues
"If Europe excludes one major source of models, capital and industrial expertise while remaining structurally dependent on the other, it will have chosen a camp rather than achieved autonomy. Sovereignty is not isolation. It is the power to choose."
Yao Xu, secretary-general at the Center for Global AI Innovative Governance, Fudan University, and Huang Kaiyue, a research assistant at the Center, in their article "Europe's AI ‘Wake-up Moment': Sovereignty Is the Power to Choose" for newspaper the Global Times on August 9
"Truly good labor protection does not mean continuously raising standards for the small group of workers already covered by formal sector safeguards. It means ensuring that even the most vulnerable have access to a minimum level of reliable protection. Rather than continually raising the ceiling of protection, policymakers should raise its floor."
Nie Riming, a researcher at the Shanghai Institute of Finance and Law, speaking with financial news portal Caixin on the public backlash surrounding an expert's recent claim that gig workers have benefited from greater freedom
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