Inclusion·Bund Summit Creator Stage explores science, solo founders and AI art

On the first day, the summit partnered with the Chinese Academy of Sciences' science-culture brand Gezhi Lunda for a session titled Toward the Unknown, Testing Boldly. Eight scholars from Fudan University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, China Academy of Art, Peking University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Westlake University took the stage. Peking University professor Zhang Qinghong described a 3,000-year climate-disaster map behind hail. CAS researcher Chang Liang explained the Qingzhou cargo spacecraft as agile space-Earth logistics. Shanghai Jiao Tong University professor Zhao Weishu took the audience to the 10,000-meter abyss to look for extreme life oases in the dark Mariana Trench. Shanghai Changzheng Hospital director Chen Huajiang discussed cervical spine surgery that reversed a near-decapitation injury. Fudan University's Wang Yun spoke about a carbon-silicon mutual journey in brain-computer interfaces; Beijing Normal University's Zhang Jiang analyzed emergence in complex systems; and the China Academy of Art's Nie Shichang explored mechanical sculpture and new materials.

The first day's four-hour afternoon session drew a packed audience of different ages and backgrounds. Frontiers that had been locked in academic papers became forces ordinary people could sense and question, forming what the report called the warmest prologue of the summit.

The second day shifted to the Super Individual Day, where 17 practitioners from different fields brought the one-person company from a geek utopia into real business. Independent developer Zhang San described an extreme experiment that launched 120 apps in five months and won overseas users. Post-2000 entrepreneur Ouyang Wangzi presented an AI magnifying glass. Naughty Labs CEO Yang Tianrun discussed using self-developed multi-agents to iterate traditional departments, introducing agents into code review and business workflows and rewriting the employment logic of modern companies. Mo Linjian of Ant's Lingguang App described how Lingguang Flash could make coding available to everyone.

An afternoon roundtable on the second day addressed whether the super individual is a survivor-bias story and where the majority that fails to break out falls short. The discussion covered the pain of quitting a job to start a business and the anxiety of one person bearing unlimited liability. It showed that AI has flattened production thresholds, but the value judgment of what to do, why to do it and who pays can never be automated by algorithms.

The third day's AI Art Talk moved the event toward questions of human essence and authorship. Top creators in design, music and video took the stage. ACE Studio founder Guo Jing and Sonicite founder Brenda asked how, when generating 10,000 songs is easy, selection, sequencing and emotional buildup still depend on human auditory experience and aesthetic decisions. AI artist Gene Kogan, director Li Rang, visual artist Chen Momo and Alibaba video generation model head Xue Tengfei confronted a harsh reality: when AIGC images flood the internet, why do most works quickly become digital garbage? Creators enjoy efficiency, but they may also be domesticated by their tools.

The climax came in a conversation between Central Academy of Fine Arts professor Fei Jun and artist Luo Cheng. They asked the audience: if AI has completed 99 percent of a work and humans contribute only the final 1 percent, what is that 1 percent? Is it the aesthetic decision to choose among discarded drafts, the personal trauma and life experience hidden behind a prompt, or the empathy that connects an artwork to real society after it leaves the gallery wall?

By the Huangpu River, the Creator Stage did not close its questions. It moved from deep-sea microbes to space cargo, from post-2000 lightweight companies to artists' soul-searching. It did not cater to established industry rankings, avoid the confusion and fractures of transition, or sell a cheap technological utopia. As each speaker demonstrated, the more omnipotent tools become, the more irreplaceable are human abilities to define problems, take responsibility and sense warmth.