China's AI anxieties focus on productivity, not job displacement
Unlike Western concerns about job losses to AI, China's focus is on maintaining technological pace. An expert explained that China's anxieties over artificial intelligence differ significantly from those in other countries.
What if you weren’t worried about A.I. taking your job? That seems to be closer to the reality in China, where keeping pace with the new technology is a much bigger focus than economic disruption. On “Interesting Times,” Kyle Chan, a foreign policy fellow at the Brookings Institution, explains how the countries differ in their anxieties over artificial intelligence.