Workers in China Worry over Being Replaced as They Adapt to the Growing Impact of AI on Jobs
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Workers in China worry over being replaced as they adapt to the growing impact of AI on jobs
Computer programmer Fei Zhaojun's boss asked him if artificial intelligence could soon replace humans in coding jobs. Two weeks later, he was laid off from his job in Beijing, together with about 160 of his colleagues.
Humanist robots produced by companies in China leave everyone with their mouths peeled, but that doesn't come without sacrifices.
The question came from the boss: could artificial intelligence soon replace human programmers? Two weeks later, Fei Zhaojun, 40, and about 160 of his colleagues were laid off by the Beijing-based company they worked for. For Fei, the episode turned a theoretical debate into a personal issue. Until then, he had doubted that artificial intelligence tools could perfectly do the work of a programmer. But the company's management believed that the re…
HONG KONG-Fei Zhaojun worked as a computer programmer when one day his boss asked him if artificial intelligence could replace the human being in that kind of work in the near future.Two weeks later, he and another 160 of his colleagues were fired from their employment in Beijing.It's an increasingly common scenario as artificial intelligence, supported by government policies, transforms China's huge labor market.Some economists believe that thi…
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