China's AI automation push risks worsening youth job instability and fertility crisis, Yale scholar warns
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China is aggressively deploying AI and robotics to address its labor shortage, installing over half of the world's robots in 2024. However, this automation push may be worsening the erosion of stable jobs for young workers. Without reforms to improve wages, housing access, and childcare, automation could entrench a low-fertility crisis and destabilize the social contract, according to Yale sociologist Emma Zang.
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· 3 pulledChina is betting artificial intelligence will solve its labour shortage, as policymakers ramp up a nationwide push to deploy AI and robotics across the economy.
But it may be worsening a different problem: the erosion of stable jobs for young workers.
Without reforms to improve wages, housing access and childcare, automation could entrench a low-fertility crisis and destabilise the social contract.
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