AmiSight 12/1: China Pumps up AI Efforts to Retain Manufacturing Status

In response to President Trump’s push to reclaim global manufacturing with high tariffs on foreign products, China’s factories and ports are learning to make and export more goods faster, cheaper, and with fewer workers.

China’s top priority has been to quickly and efficiently increase its AI efforts to shore up its role as the world’s factory floor in the long-term. Billions of dollars in government and private technology development are transforming every step of making and exporting goods, the Wall Street Journal reports.

According to the International Federation of Robotics, China installed 295,000 industrial robots last year, nearly nine times as many as the U.S. and more than the rest of the world combined, enabling the spread of “dark factories,” with operations so automated that work happens around the clock with the lights dimmed.

While there may be a risk of AI causing massive job loss, Chinese are betting the country’s shrinking population, projected to fall by 200 million in the next three decades, will offset job cuts at factories, boosting productivity without raising unemployment.

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