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How AI Becomes a Political Crisis
Unemployment, Data Center Backlash, and the Brewing Storm
Aug 24 • Jordan Schneider and Phoebe Chow
How Chinese make sense of the AI future
“My ‘Skill’ is uploaded; my cubicle has been emptied.”
Jun 19 • Irene Zhang and Nick Corvino
China’s AI optimism isn’t what it seems
The enthusiasm seems real. But for a population that lived through the mass layoffs of the 1990s, optimism and fear can look identical from the outside.
May 22 • Zilan Qian
China on AI Job Loss: “No ‘Matrix’ for us, thanks.”
“We’re a people’s republic after all.”
Apr 1
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