China is getting worried about AI & jobs
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And the CCP is worried about people worrying about it
One of the more interesting parts of my job is that occasionally I get to run small surveys — really more like focus groups — where I ask influential members of China’s AI policy community what AI-related risks worry them the most. In the exercise, we present the participants with a list of different risks: employment impacts, bias and discrimination, catastrophic risk, etc. We then ask them to rank the risks according to their level of concern about each one over the coming decade. I did a version of this in early 2024 and again in early 2026 and the results were striking. In 2024, the…
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