On September 9, the 2026 Inclusion · Bund Conference opened in Shanghai. The conference's first-ever AI Art Festival was also launched, featuring three main sections: an AI Concept Art Exhibition, AI Film Screening, and AI Music Concert. The festival will continue until September 12, bringing AI creation, which was originally online, to a physical venue.

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The AI Concept Art Exhibition "Entanglement, Then Day Becomes Night" is the first AI concept art exhibition in China guided by an intelligent agent (Agent). It gathers works from more than 20 artists at home and abroad, including Gene Kogan, Guo Ruwen, and Luo Xiao. The most notable work is "AARON at Tsukuba, #219-3-85", created in 1985. This work was autonomously drawn and signed by the AARON system, built by the art pioneer Harold Cohen. AARON is considered the world's first AI system designed specifically for artistic creation, and this piece is the only known work that it has signed on its own.

The film section "Other Space" has collaborated with platforms such as MiniMax, KeLing AI, TapNow, and Wanxiang, showcasing more than 100 global AI film works. Among them, the AI ink painting short film "One Thought" won the Best AI Short Film Award in the China Section of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Film Festival and was selected for official screening at the Cannes Film Palace. The first micro-film of the series "The World of Zhuangzi," supervised by Yi Zhongtian, "Dream of the Butterfly," achieved over one million views within three days of its release.

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In addition, on the evening of September 11, the conference will collaborate with Yuri Yuli, the first AI virtual idol in China to receive official digital identity certification, to present the country's first AI artist live concert. The band "Landlord's Cat" and the Shanghai Huili Kindergarten Choir will perform together on stage.