{"id":226463,"date":"2026-03-22T12:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/22\/my-take-in-china-ai-is-about-job-creation-and-quality-not-mass-retrenchments\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T17:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T21:20:17","slug":"my-take-in-china-ai-is-about-job-creation-and-quality-not-mass-retrenchments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/22\/my-take-in-china-ai-is-about-job-creation-and-quality-not-mass-retrenchments\/","title":{"rendered":"My Take | In China, AI is about job creation and quality, not mass retrenchments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/article\/3347507\/china-ai-about-job-creation-and-quality-not-mass-retrenchments\">My Take | In China, AI is about job creation and quality, not mass retrenchments<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/article\/3347507\/china-ai-about-job-creation-and-quality-not-mass-retrenchments\">https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/article\/3347507\/china-ai-about-job-creation-and-quality-not-mass-retrenchments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-22 12:41:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.scmp.com\">www.scmp.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Like any revolutionary technology, artificial intelligence (AI) is morally neutral \u2013 it\u2019s the use to which it is put that makes it harmful or beneficial.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">While they are obsessed with achieving AI supremacy, Chinese policymakers have been far more concerned about regulating it, mitigating its impact on job losses and popularising its use as a social good.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It is trying to tackle the AI paradox: the more people use it, the more jobs in diverse sectors are threatened.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">An AI productivity boost has long been promised, but it is already causing job losses. In China, it comes at a time when youth unemployment is rising while the decades-long economic juggernaut slows down.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Beijing has fully integrated its \u201cAI-Plus\u201d plan, first published last August, with its state industrial policy for the next five years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/article\/3347507\/china-ai-about-job-creation-and-quality-not-mass-retrenchments\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Take | In China, AI is about job creation and quality, not mass retrenchments&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":226464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/og_image_scmp_opinion\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/03\/23\/aef58b82-0c5b-41d7-9781-017fa0166f5a_33e384dc.jpg?itok=jflpAJiP&v=1774197699","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226465,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226463\/revisions\/226465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}