China tells businesses to embrace AI. Where does that leave humans?
Marketplace Tech
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🗓️ 19 August 2025
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Marketplace’s Jennifer Pak recently attended the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai. She asked Chinese AI firms what they think about the humans who might lose jobs to their AI products.
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| 0:00.0 | The U.S. and China are in a fierce AI race, and nobody knows how it'll affect jobs. |
| 0:07.7 | From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech. I'm Megan McCarty Carrino. |
| 0:27.3 | U.S. competition with China is one of the driving factors in the headlong push to develop more and more advanced artificial intelligence, despite nagging concerns about what the technology |
| 0:33.8 | could mean for human society, and especially workers. There are similar concerns over in China, |
| 0:40.7 | where the pressure to adopt AI in business comes all the way from the top. China's cabinet, |
| 0:46.4 | the state council, wrapped up a meeting late last month where they agreed to, quote, |
| 0:51.1 | vigorously promote the large-scale commercial application of artificial intelligence |
| 0:55.9 | and integrate AI into various industries. Our China correspondent, Jennifer Pack, spoke to some |
| 1:02.0 | Chinese AI firms at a recent conference in Shanghai and sent this report. |
| 1:07.5 | At the World AI Conference in Shanghai, over 800 exhibitors display their latest tech. |
| 1:12.9 | Megax unloader. |
| 1:15.8 | Companies, and they're almost all Chinese here, showcase how you can talk to AI like it was human. |
| 1:22.2 | Here's Aunt Group's Annie Chen demonstrating its AI doctor. |
| 1:26.6 | Hi, Dr. Mao. |
| 1:27.9 | I kept waking up early this past two days. |
| 1:31.3 | What's up with that? |
| 1:33.4 | Nine seconds go by, then... |
| 1:35.8 | Waking up early could be a sign of sleep maintenance disorder. |
| 1:40.7 | I recommend you keep a regular schedule of work and rest. |
| 1:44.6 | Others tout how life-like their AI avatars are. |
| 1:47.9 | SenseTime says it can clone influencers. |
| 1:50.8 | Then their AI avatars can live stream on e-commerce platforms. |
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