Hosting the 2021 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai fit in well with China's ambition to become the leading AI innovation center by 2030. Already, it has overtaken the U.S. in AI medical innovations which, according to an article published in euronews.com According to the World Economic Forum's annual Sustainable Development Impact Summit held virtually in September 2020, AI systems are useful in tackling the greatest challenges facing humanity, including climate change, COVID-19 and world hunger. In the next few decades, AI will be an everyday reality for much of the world's population, encompassing health, education and transport to consumption, entertainment and even spiritualism. AI should be about how well technology can make life easier and more convenient for the 7.7 billion people currently living on the globe and for future generations, a pertinent issue that arose on July 11, World Population Day.