From October 20 to 22, the 2026 Sustainable Global Leaders Conference will return to the banks of the Huangpu River in Shanghai, alongside the second Green Industry and Sustainable Consumption Expo, bringing together Nobel Prize and Turing Award winners to discuss the future and trends of technology, with a dialogue between popular professors Ian McFarlane and Xiang Biao.
At the sideline forum titled "Long-Term Capital and Resilient Growth," Li Xiaojia, founder of Drip Capital, said that trust and regulation are the most important elements of finance. He pointed out a contradiction in AI finance: human bandwidth is limited, but human responsibility must be unlimited, so people will not accept AI taking responsibility; meanwhile, AI has unlimited bandwidth but limited reliability. How can human responsibility be implemented down to the most fragmented and detailed endpoints while fully unleashing AI capabilities?
He proposed the strategic direction of a "hat army": letting thousands of AI agents perform short, small tasks, and keeping the risk of AI unreliability within an acceptable range. He used "Journey to the West" as an analogy: only Tang Sanzang could retrieve the true scriptures, but without Sun Wukong, they could not move forward; Sun Wukong is often unreliable, so he is given a tight headband spell, and when fighting each demon, he only fights one and does nothing else—when unreliable, it is less likely to make mistakes.
For HKEX (ASX: 00388) and HKEX-R (ASX: 80388), as well as Hong Kong Exchange & Clearing Ltd. (ASX: HKXCY), the discussion highlighted how AI governance in finance remains a key topic for market participants.
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