The Economist.
China sees dominance of AI as an almost existential necessity.
But while America is focused on achieving artificial general intelligence,
matching or surpassing human levels across all domains,
Chinese leaders are focused on trying to use
the less powerful models that they have today throughout China's economy.
Already, AI is changing the way the world's largest workforce
makes popular forms of entertainment and transports billions of packages each year.
And already, jobs are changing or disappearing, sometimes overnight.
But China's embrace of AI also comes with a unique set of challenges
Its social welfare net is flimsy, and youth unemployment is already high.
In recent years, the gig economy has taken up the slack, absorbing hundreds of millions of workers.
But now those jobs too are under threat from AI.
I'm Sarah Wu.
And I'm Jeremy Page.
And this week on Drum Tower,
we're looking at how China's AI drive is threatening the world's largest workforce
and asking if China's leaders are doing enough
to support the workers who are being displaced by the tech that they're promoting.
Hi Sarah, it's great to see you again.