{"id":198267,"date":"2026-03-22T12:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/22\/my-take-in-china-ai-is-about-job-creation-and-quality-not-mass-retrenchments\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T15:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T19:40:16","slug":"my-take-in-china-ai-is-about-job-creation-and-quality-not-mass-retrenchments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/22\/my-take-in-china-ai-is-about-job-creation-and-quality-not-mass-retrenchments\/","title":{"rendered":"My Take | In China, AI is about job creation and quality, not mass retrenchments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/article\/3347507\/china-ai-about-job-creation-and-quality-not-mass-retrenchments\">My Take | In China, AI is about job creation and quality, not mass retrenchments<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/article\/3347507\/china-ai-about-job-creation-and-quality-not-mass-retrenchments\">https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/article\/3347507\/china-ai-about-job-creation-and-quality-not-mass-retrenchments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-22 12:41:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.scmp.com\">www.scmp.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Artificial intelligence (AI) is morally neutral; its application determines its impact on society.<\/li>\n<li>Chinese policymakers prioritize AI regulation to mitigate job losses and promote its use for social benefits.<\/li>\n<li>China tackles the AI paradox, where increased usage could threaten jobs in various sectors.<\/li>\n<li>An AI-induced productivity boost has led to initial job losses, coinciding with rising youth unemployment and economic slowdown.<\/li>\n<li>Beijing has integrated its &#8220;AI-Plus&#8221; plan into its five-year state industrial policy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Take | In China, AI is about job creation and quality, not mass retrenchments&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":198268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/og_image_scmp_opinion\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/03\/23\/aef58b82-0c5b-41d7-9781-017fa0166f5a_33e384dc.jpg?itok=jflpAJiP&v=1774197699","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-198267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198269,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198267\/revisions\/198269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}