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Today, as China school year begins, students as young as six will be studying artificial intelligence.

It's a starting point for them to be able to be comfortable with the idea of artificial

intelligence from a really young age.

What lessons does this experiment hold for students?

And what will it mean for China's future as the global tech race rages on?

I'm Malika Bilal and this is The Take.

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I'm Katrina Yu. I am the correspondent for Al Jazeera English in China based in Beijing.

And you are talking to me very late in Beijing right now. Indeed. It is 11 p.m.

Well, Katrina, it is great to have you on the take. This September, China is doing something it hasn't done before.

Children, as young as six years old, will be trained in artificial intelligence literacy.

So it begs the question, what does that look like in the classroom?

Right. Well, China is strongly encouraging AI education for not just six-year-old,

but as soon as you start school to the end, a program of AI literacy,

obviously you just start, you can't, you know, you're at school, you can't read. And so it's

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