Star founders, Beijing officials and deep-pocketed financiers converge on Shanghai by the thousands this weekend to attend China’s most important AI summit. At the top of the agenda: how to propel Beijing’s ambitions to leapfrog the US in artificial intelligence — and profit off that drive.

The plan, released Wednesday, includes a strong push for industries to hurry up with adopting AI — arguing that “many of America’s most critical sectors,” notably health care, have been slow to integ...

“First off, there's no such thing as woke AI,” she said. “There’s AI technology that discriminates and then there’s AI technology that actually works for all people.”