China's thinkers have very different answers to what's left for humans after AI
sudoraohacker · x · 2026-10-20
Arnaud Bertrand argues it's one of the great ironies of our time: China is increasingly shaping AI's future, yet Westerners have no idea how its philosophers, sociologists and ethicists view it. He argues much of the Western AI debate springs from one cultural soil — e.g. the assumption that intelligence defines humanity (Homo sapiens), which explains much of the superintelligence anxiety — and that Chinese thought starts from different premises, yielding very different answers to what's left for us after AI.
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