Dilma Rousseff, president of the New Development Bank (NDB) and former Brazilian president, was awarded China's Friendship Medal on Sunday at a ceremony held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
The Friendship Medal is China's highest state honor for foreigners, awarded to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to supporting China's socialist modernization, promoting exchanges and cooperation between China and foreign countries and safeguarding world peace.
The medal symbolizes the long-standing friendship between the people of China and the rest of the world.
On Sept 13, Chinese President Xi Jinping signed a presidential order to award national medals and national honorary titles to 15 individuals on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC) that falls on Oct 1.
Born in December 1947, the Brazilian economist and politician has been the chair of the NDB since March 2023. Headquartered in Shanghai, the bank was set up in 2015 by the BRICS group of emerging economies.
Former Brazilian president awarded China's top-honor Friendship Medal
China has issued a trial guideline on the ethics review and service of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said on Friday.
The guideline, jointly issued by 10 government departments, including the ministry, calls for efforts to support technological innovation in AI ethics review and to strengthen the use of technical measures to prevent AI-related ethical risks.
The guideline clarifies that the review should focus on human well-being, fairness and justice, and controllability and trustworthiness.
It also details issues that should be addressed in the review, such as the selection criteria for training data, the rationality of the algorithm, model and system design, and measures to prevent bias, discrimination and algorithmic exploitation.
The guideline also calls for promoting the orderly open-sourcing of high-quality datasets for AI ethics review, strengthening the development of general risk management, assessment and auditing tools, and exploring risk assessment based on application scenarios.
It also encourages the promotion of AI products and services that comply with scientific and technological ethics, and the protection of intellectual property rights in AI ethics review technologies.
China issues guideline for AI ethics governance
