Just in time for Labour Day, China makes it illegal to fire humans if AI takes their jobs
A Chinese court has ruled that it’s illegal to replace human workers with AI.
China’s State Council, the nation’s highest executive and administrative authority, saw fit to publish a state media report about the case, which saw the Hangzhou Intermediate People’s Court consider the case of a worker who was hired for duties including “matching user queries with large language models and filtering illegal or privacy-violating content, among others, to ensure accurate output by AI models.”
The worker’s employer started using AI for some of that work and offered the employee a demotion and reduced salary.
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