State Council General Office issues opinions deploying response to AI employment impact, building an employment-friendly development model
国办发文定调！事关应对AI就业冲击
The General Office of the State Council recently issued the "Opinions on Adapting to the Development of Artificial Intelligence Technology and Helping Build an Employment-Friendly Development Model", proposing to enhance AI's positive effects such as creating employment opportunities and empowering traditional jobs, and to effectively mitigate its employment-substitution impact. The opinions encourage enterprises to explore establishing an unemployment buffer-period system, to notify affected workers in advance and provide transition and job-change support when promoting and applying AI at large scale, and propose improving the income distribution mechanism that adapts to the development of AI technology. Cai Fang, a member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, believes the current period may be a brief quiet period before AI produces a greater employment impact, and a response platform needs to be built in advance at the institutional level. Zhou Wen, a distinguished professor at Fudan University, proposes accelerating the construction of an AI rule-of-law system, focusing on issues such as algorithmic discrimination, deepfakes, data abuse and privacy leaks to improve specialized laws and regulations.
The State Council Office opinion proposes arrangements such as an unemployment buffer period and support for career transitions and job changes to mitigate AI-driven job displacement, helping readers understand official policy thinking on responding to employment shocks.