{"id":24194,"date":"2026-07-31T08:37:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T06:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/31\/could-ai-take-your-job-some-workers-in-china-already-know-the-answer\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T08:37:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T06:37:35","slug":"could-ai-take-your-job-some-workers-in-china-already-know-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/31\/could-ai-take-your-job-some-workers-in-china-already-know-the-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Could AI take your job? Some workers in China already know the answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Across the country, workers are fearful about the impact of AI on their livelihoods in an increasingly fragile labour market <\/p>\n<p>On the tree-lined streets of Wuhan, where cars jostle for space with mopeds and cargo trucks, the malfunctioning of a new type of vehicle has recently been causing chaos on the city\u2019s roads.<\/p>\n<p>In March, several cars from a fleet of driverless taxis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/apr\/01\/system-malfunction-causes-robotaxis-to-stall-in-the-middle-of-the-road-in-china\">stopped abruptly<\/a> in the streets. The \u201csystem malfunction\u201d left distressed riders stranded for hours. The robotaxis, known as Apollo Go and powered by artificial intelligence (AI), were taken off Wuhan\u2019s streets for months for investigations.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jul\/31\/china-ai-jobs-workers-labour-market-technology\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/3ce356aad9a745854a5c27720db1c03216959a5a\/1364_788_3114_2492\/master\/3114.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a0ac91e1359cda86ccbab3b9392da136\" title=\"Could AI take your job? Some workers in China already know the answer\" \/>Across the country, workers are fearful about the impact of AI on their livelihoods in an increasingly fragile labour market<br \/>\nOn the tree-lined streets of Wuhan, where cars jostle for space with mopeds and cargo trucks, the malfunctioning of a new type of vehicle has recently been causing chaos on the city\u2019s roads.<br \/>\nIn March, several cars from a fleet of driverless taxis stopped abruptly in the streets. The \u201csystem malfunction\u201d left distressed riders stranded for hours. The robotaxis, known as Apollo Go and powered by artificial intelligence (AI), were taken off Wuhan\u2019s streets for months for investigations. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Across the country, workers are fearful about the impact of AI on their livelihoods in an increasingly fragile labour market On the tree-lined streets of Wuhan, where cars jostle for space with mopeds and cargo trucks, the malfunctioning of a new type of vehicle has recently been causing chaos on the city\u2019s roads. In March, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/31\/could-ai-take-your-job-some-workers-in-china-already-know-the-answer\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Could AI take your job? Some workers in China already know the answer<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24194"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}