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China’s AI push raises fears over widespread job cuts

3 mins | Aug 31, 2018

Many Chinese manufacturers have reduced up to 40% of their workforce as a result of automation. Yuan Yang and Xinning Liu, writing in the Financial Times, describe the fears that China’s AI push has raised over widespread job cuts.

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