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Understanding China’s pragmatic AI optimism

While the US imagines AI through dystopia and lost human agency, China’s embrace of the technology is shaped by memories of poverty, national humiliation and the conviction that technological progress cannot be resisted

By Selina Xu
Understanding China’s pragmatic AI optimism
Humanoid at AI booth Shanghai 2026 CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
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