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AI Adoption Growth in China
Comparison of generative AI usage growth year-over-year in China.
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Americans are busy getting angry and throwing a fit about AI while the ...
On a recent weekday, around 50 people gathered outside the headquarters of a Chinese mobile internet company, waiting to get help with installing an artificial intelligence assistant. The scene in Beijing, China’s capital, was repeated for days at several events and was also seen in the southern technology hub Shenzhen in March, as engineers helped crowds trying to set up the popular AI “agent” OpenClaw on their laptops. “I’m worried about falling behind in technological developments,” said Sun Lei, a 41-year-old human resources manager at the Cheetah event. She said she hoped the tool might help her source and screen resumes across various recruitment platforms. More than a year after OpenAI’s Chinese rival DeepSeek stunned the world with its advanced AI model, China has become a testing ground for mass use of AI tools. AI models built in the United States still dominate in raw computing firepower, but Chinese people and businesses have rapidly embraced the technology, facilitating its swift and widespread adoption in almost every possible field. As global AI adoption rises quickly at workplaces and in daily lives, ordinary Chinese are using AI for all sorts of things, from booking and planning travel, ordering food and hailing rides. Of its 1.4 billion population, more than 600 million were using generative AI as of December, a 142% increase from a year earlier, according to a report by the government-controlled China Internet Network Information Center. And, with the recent surge in the use of “agentic” AI like OpenClaw including for many Chinese businesses, the consumption of data by AI models has also risen. Measured in what computer scientists call tokens, or units of data such as part of a word, the weekly share used by Chinese AI models has recently surpassed U.S. models, according to OpenRouter, an AI “gateway platform” that tracks data and enforces security across different AI models. AI adoption positions China as a ‘world leader’ Jason Tong, a 64-year-old retiree in Shanghai who has worked as an IT engineer, has been using AI chatbots such as Doubao and Kimi for everyday queries since they were first introduced a few years ago. He began paying closer attention to his health and in early March joined a blood glucose monitoring service run by a Shanghai-based company that uses an AI model to generate tailored health advice. He has found its personalized, rapid responses helpful. Widespread adoption of AI applications in everyday life is ...
Do Americans really hate AI? - Marginal REVOLUTION
We might be heading towards a populist backlash towards AI, but we’re not there yet. Outside the tech bubble, Americans really don’t care about AI yet. AI is Americans’ 29th most important issue, according to the fantastic survey @davidshor ran that everyone is rightly looking at. It’s not surprising that Americans will answer sentiment questions about AI negatively, as they’ve been negative towards tech for a while. But it’s a big leap from negative sentiment to meaningful political action. Americans have been negative on social media for 10 years, and there has been no meaningful political action. And that’s despite all the other hallmarks of backlash people are saying about AI—violent extremists (people forget there was a shooting at YouTube HQ), protests, etc. My prediction: we will get real populist backlash to AI when the unemployment moves by, say, 2 percentage points and people see it as caused by AI. That is part of a longer tweet from Andy Hall.
AI Disruption Plan: Preparing Americans for the Next Great Labor Shock
A national AI disruption strategy must begin by better preparing Americans to work alongside the technology. Start by making sure every American student is AI literate. Every public school in America should teach functional AI literacy—the ability to use AI tools, understand their limitations, and apply them responsibly in work and daily life.
When Americans Get Nervous About the Future - AllSides
Latin American countries were also very positive about AI, while Europe, Canada, and the US were much more dour. The same Stanford research provides a helpful clue as to why Americans are so much more dubious about AI. The same researchers asked whether the respondents trusted their government to regulate AI responsibly.
