Ma Liang: New Forms of Businesses Will Profoundly Reshape People's Values and Behaviour Patterns

To coordinate development and security, we should seriously concern thenew forms of businesses

Emerging technologies, represented by new generations of information technology such as big data, artificial intelligence and 5G, have promoted the vigorous development of a large number of new industries in recent years.

There is no doubt that new forms of businesseshave generated strong entrepreneurial potential, employability and economic value. However, in addition to the technical and economic significance of thenew forms of businesses, it is more important to recognize and attach great importance to its social impact and political implications.

Security issues are our primary concern, as everyone can be trapped in artificial intelligence-built "systems". It is even more important to recognize that new forms of businesses and the emerging technologies behind themwill not only significantly affect business models and economic patterns, but will also profoundly reshape people's values and behaviour patterns, as well as the structure and culture of society.

In many aspects of social relations, thenew forms of businesses haveexerted a subtle and far-reaching impact, penetrating and reshaping the multiple relationships between people. For example, the remodeling of labor relations by platform economy, the influence of telemedicanism on doctor-patient relations, the influence of online education in teacher-student relations, the threat of intelligent recommended short videos to ethnic relations and audience’s political attitudes, and the deep immersion of virtual reality technology in interpersonal relationships, human-object relationships and inter-human relations are all reminders that we should pay more attention to, they are a series of social, ethical, political and cultural implications that new forms of businesses may bring. These looming complex and far-reaching effects can lead to irreversible changes in individual values, social attitudes and group behaviour.

First of all, we should further protect the development of thenew forms of businesses, ensuring a loose environment for their development. China is at the forefront of development of new forms of businesses and theironline applications and may lead the fourth industrial revolution. The innovation, employment and economic impacts of thenew forms of businesses are becoming more and more prominent, so we should create a good innovation atmosphere and business environment for its development.

Secondly, thenew forms of businessesare like a series of social experiments being carried out rapidly, which continue to advance in different regions, industries and people. This is providing us with an opportunity to assess and predict the socio-political impact of thenew forms of businesses. We can strengthen the research of social experiments in the era of artificial intelligence, evaluate the impact of emerging technologies and new industries on human production activities, living orders and social relations, especially in the fields of education, medical care, old-age care, public security and other social governance, so as to be fully prepared for the next round of social change.

Finally, to effectively supervise thenew forms of businesses, government should innovate the regulatory model, explore the regulatory tools such as trigger supervision, regulatory sandboxing and credit supervision, and keep the bottom line while maintaining the precision, timeliness and effectiveness of regulatory intervention.