AI in China: Workers’ hopes and fears over impact to jobs

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– Shanghai lawyer Xie Jingyi regularly uses artificial intelligence (AI) for work, even though she does not trust it entirely, wary of “hallucinations” or false information presented as fact. She uses tools such as DeepSeek and Doubao for the efficiency gains. Instead of spending hours on an online database to find legal precedents, the 36-year-old now uses AI to do the trawling, which surfaces similar judgments in just seconds. “It saves me an incredible amount of time,” said Ms Xie, who has been working as a commercial litigation lawyer since 2022. While acknowledging that AI will make some of her…

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