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China is torn on the AI unemployment question

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Chinese policymakers appear to have different concerns about the impact of AI on employment than their Western counterparts. At a January 21 press conference, MIIT Vice Minister Zhang Yunming sounded a confident note when asked how to balance China's efforts to increase AI adoption in the manufactur...



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