Chen Yunji, co-founder of Chinese chip giant Cambricon Technologies, called for universal ethical requirements for leading Chinese and American artificial intelligence models on Friday to mitigate growing risks to society. His remarks at the World Laureates Forum in Shanghai come as the rapid advance of AI systems globally has led to high-profile cyberattacks threatening critical infrastructure and breaching government servers. Chen proposed a universal “ethics checker” that all leading AI models, including those from DeepSeek, ByteDance, and OpenAI, would need to satisfy. Other experts, including Turing Award recipient Martin Hellman, also emphasized the need for China and the US to cooperate on AI safety, especially ahead of upcoming meetings between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump where AI governance is expected to be a prominent agenda item.