00:00:0000:00:00 Senior China correspondent Amy Hawkins on China’s embrace of AI, from medical avatars to food delivery drones and state surveillance While the spread of AI has been met perhaps with a lot of scepticism in the west, China has fully embraced the technology, explains Amy Hawkins, from millions of users talking to AI doctors, to the use of intelligent robots in factories, and drones delivering food on the Great Wall of China.
AI has also been eagerly taken up by the state, not least in the opportunities it provides for further surveillance, the Guardian’s senior China correspondent says.
Amy talks to Annie Kelly about the prospects and pitfalls provided by the technology in China, and whether such widespread adoption – and transformation of society – is a sign of what is to come around the world.
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