China is taking AI-induced job displacement more seriously. “Adapting to the Development of AI and Promoting an Employment-Friendly Development Model” Some highlights: - Strengthen monitoring and early warning of employment risks from AI - Do more research on impact of AI on jobs - Encourage firms to set up unemployment buffer period, inform workers in advance of AI rollout, help with job transfers and finding new jobs - Provide workers displaced by AI with support, such as career guidance, training, job search support Overall, it’s not much and not very concrete. There’s no discussion of universal basic income or any major expansion of the social safety net. But it’s a more prominent sign that Beijing is taking this issue more seriously, no longer content to just focus mainly on the upsides of AI like new AI jobs.