Human rights protection stressed
Madrid seminar calls on China, Europe to make combined efforts in digital era
Lin Wei, president of Southwest University of Political Science and Law and dean of the school's Human Rights Institute, said while digital intelligence technologies inject new vitality into human rights protection, they pose unprecedented challenges to the subjectivity of human beings.
"How to safeguard human dignity and rights in the era of digital intelligence is a common issue faced by China and European countries and also a subject that we must jointly address," he said.
Giuseppina Merchionne, a Sinologist and president of the Italy-China Center for Collaboration and Cultural Exchanges of the Silk Road, said Confucius' concept of the brotherhood of man transcends any geographical and cultural distinctions and forms the basis of his revolutionary idea of universal love, which transcends any form of social and natural order.
"It is in this vision of universal love, first expressed by Confucius and Buddhist teachings, that the concept of human rights reaches the highest point of its universal significance in the Chinese cultural tradition," she said.
Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder and president of the Germany-based Schiller Institute, said in the process of applying AI technology, a series of unregulated and unsupervised practices have brought danger to the world.
"At present, there is a trend that the development of intelligent technology conflicts with human development. That is, it is not based on human rights," she said, voicing her concern about the use and abuse of AI technology as a weapon of war in the latest conflict between Israel and Iran.
Chinese Ambassador to Spain Yao Jing said as the world's largest developing country, China pursues a people-centered philosophy, regards the right to survival and development as the primary basic human rights, and strives to promote the comprehensive and coordinated development of economic, social, cultural rights and civil and political rights.
"We have embarked on a human rights development path that suits China's national conditions. It is supported by the people, and conforms to the trend of the times," he said.
