Grace Hsiao

However, I would say that

There is obviously anxiety from the public in some degree, not as much of a pushback.

But recently, there was a very interesting court case in Hangzhou, which is home to Alibaba and a lot of these AI labs.

Basically, a company tried to lay off a person saying you are being replaced by AI.

And the court literally ruled, say, that is not allowed.

And no company can use AI as an excuse to lay off or replace or even cut short their contract time.

So that was a really swift reaction from regulators.

And I think it really did serve as a calming factor for the public.

Obviously, I also think I want to preface the fact that the knowledge worker economy makes up less of the overall economy in China as well.

So that kind of fear maybe doesn't feel as imminent, but that conversation is being had.

But I do think in Asia in general, not only in China, you look at South Korea, Singapore, all these countries are approaching AI in a very pragmatic way.

And the tire moms are trying to train up the kids to be AI native.

The students are trying to train themselves up to be AI native.

People are preparing for the future versus pushing back on the future.

I do have to say I'm not a policy expert, so I don't work with a lot of the safety people as much.

But there are organizations in China that are definitely working, like the regulators, as well as the private sector working together.

And for some context, in China, there are various moving parts in the government.

There's MIT, the CAC, etc.

These agencies, basically, some are to propel economic growth.

So in this case, AI diffusion, the whole idea of AI plus, AI plus every single sector you can think of.