Abstract: The risks potentially arising from artificial intelligence have become a fundamental point of discussion in AI safety studies. However, academic perspectives diverge regarding the issues triggered by super-intelligence—a prospective form of advanced AI. Three representative concepts have been proposed: the “existential problem” in philosophy, “ontological risk” in the social sciences, and “catastrophic risk” in the sciences.In response to catastrophic risks, four scientific approaches

Abstract: What compels states to show explicit alignment strategies during great power competition?Building on the balance of threat theory and hedging literature, we argue the primary trigger is not the rise of a great power or rivalry itself, but Negative Alignment Statecraft (NAS): the use of economic or security coercion by a great power to limit a third state’s engagement with its rival.We contend that NAS creates an Alignment Dilemma and forces targeted states to clarify their positions. T

Abstract: China has made remarkable progress in the development of inclusive finance over the past decade. The government has further proposed the goal of building a “high-quality inclusive finance system.” At present, the development of inclusive finance in China remains primarily policy-driven and faces legal challenges, such as difficulties in achieving systemic empowerment of financial consumers and unclear delineation of responsibilities between the government and financial institutions.Fro

Abstract: Artificial intelligence has increasingly reached a consensus as an augmentation tool—for example, large-model applications enabling knowledge and reasoning enhancement, and wearables and exoskeletons enabling physical enhancement. In this sense, intelligent augmentation is a normative category that reflects, through AI tools, on how intelligent technologies augment humans and how such augmentation relates to the construction of new-type relations of production. If AI exists primarily a

Abstract：With the rapid development and global deployment of artificial intelligence (AI), regional organizations have exhibited distinctly different cooperation models when addressing this common challenge. This study analyzes how the dual characteristics of AI technology generate diffusion–strategic tensions, complexity–timeliness tensions, and competitiveness–inclusiveness tensions in regional cooperation.We find that regional organizations face a structural “trilemma”: they cannot simultaneo

Abstract: AI large-scale models, exemplified by GPT and DeepSeek, have had a profound impact on the global order. Extending the “system-lifeworld” theory to large language models not only reveals how two technological trajectories—closed-source hegemony and open-source cooperation—differently construct the global order, but also enables a paradigmatic shift of the theory from a critique of modernity to an interpretation of the global digital order.Closed-source large models epitomized by GPT are

Abstract：Algorithmic power has become a pivotal force in restructuring social relations and reconfiguring the parameters of individual security. Firms deploy algorithms to harvest, appropriate, and commodify personal data, converting these assets into profit while augmenting algorithmic agency. In the digital era, human security can be conceptualized as freedom from the fear of involuntary self-exposure, the fear of self-erosion, the scarcity of choice, and the scarcity of material resources. Al

Abstract: Artificial intelligence is becoming deeply embedded in economic development, social governance, and national security, accelerating the institutionalization of global AI governance. At the same time, the emerging governance landscape is characterized by increasing fragmentation of rules, high concentration of technological capabilities and resources, asymmetric governance capacities, and growing divergence in normative narratives. Global AI governance has taken on a multilayered and po