Empowering the Free and Comprehensive Development of Individuals with Digital-Intelligent Technologies: An Overview of the 2025 • China-Europe Seminar on Human Rights

XIE Xinyi*

Abstract: On June 25, 2025, the 2025 • China-Europe Seminar on Human Rights was held in Madrid, Spain. The seminar, themed “Human Rights in the Era of Digital Intelligence,” saw in-depth discussions among experts and scholars from China and more than 20 European countries, reaching a six-point consensus on “Human Rights Protection and Cooperation in the Digital-Intelligent Era.” The participating experts generally believed that the fundamental purpose of the development of digital and intelligent technologies is to serve human subjectivity, and the fundamental values of people-orientation, diversity, and inclusiveness, and the goodness of digital-intelligent technologies should be adhered to. In the face of the human rights risks and challenges brought about by digital-intelligent technologies, the ethical orientations of security, transparency, universal accessibility, equality, and non-discrimination should be adopted. China and Europe should share useful institutional experience, strengthen mutual learning and cooperation in key areas, and promote the establishment of a fair and just global digital-intelligent technology development order.

Keywords: human rights · digital-intelligent technologies · artificial intelligence · digital divide