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China has a bigger problem than the U.S. with falling birthrates, falling marriage rates. Are China’s leaders looking at A.I. through that lens and worrying about the A.I. girlfriend, A.I. boyfriend future? Definitely. They are very worried about that. And, in fact, they are already rolling out policies and regulations around A.I. boyfriends and A.I. girlfriends. It’s so funny — they have a very negative view of wasting time, basically of what they see, the folks in Beijing, what they see as nonproductive activity. And in that earlier era of…

new video loaded: China Is Worried About A.I. Too transcript Back transcript China Is Worried About A.I. Too What if you weren’t worried about A.I. taking your job? That seems to be closer to the reality in China, where keeping pace with the new technology is a much bigger focus than economic disruption. On “Interesting Times,” Kyle Chan, a foreign policy fellow at the Brookings Institution, explains how the countries differ in their anxieties over artificial intelligence. If you are going to try to distill the mood in China, the…

The closer you are to the machine God, the more its voice whispers in your ear. That’s right. Yeah I don’t think that Beijing is AGI pilled. Kyle Chan, welcome to “Interesting Times.” Great to be here. So at the moment, there are really only two countries that matter for the A.I. future, the United States and China. Their leaders are meeting in Beijing, and the atmosphere is similar to a kind of Cold War atmosphere where people think and argue and talk about them being in a kind of…