United Imaging Intelligence not undertaking an "extreme" AI rollout, says co-CEO

Reuters

Mon, July 20, 2026 astatine 3:40 AM CDT 1 min read

SHANGHAI, July 20 (Reuters) - An artificial intelligence-focused subsidiary of Chinese aesculapian exertion elephantine Shanghai United ‌Imaging Healthcare is taking a cautious attack ‌to deploying AI tools, its apical enforcement said, adjacent arsenic ​China pushes for broader adoption of the exertion crossed cardinal sectors.

Some Chinese companies person begun measuring worker usage of AI, viewing adoption arsenic a benchmark of ‌workplace transformation.

Speaking connected ⁠the sidelines of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Zhou Xiang, co-CEO of United ⁠Imaging Intelligence, said his institution was resisting unit to aggressively rotation retired AI tools.

Chinese President Xi Jinping ​used the ​annual league to formed ​the state arsenic the ‌champion of a caller planetary AI bid and beforehand open-source technology.

"Some companies said ... if you don't usage this overmuch token, you indispensable not beryllium transforming into the caller age. We are not that ‌extreme," Zhou said, adding bundle ​engineers and architects had warned ​him astir imaginable ​side effects due to the fact that the exertion remained ‌insufficiently mature.

"In healthcare, successful medicine, ​the archetypal ​mover vantage is not arsenic drastic arsenic different fields," helium added.

The United Imaging radical competes with ​GE HealthCare, ‌Siemens Healthineers and Philips successful aesculapian imaging and ​scanning equipment.

(Reporting by Andrew Silver successful Shanghai; ​Editing by Thomas Derpinghaus)