How China Is Embedding AI Everywhere (Even in Nightclubs)
Australian Financial Review
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- Date Published
- 22 June 2025
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- 2
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- 22 June 2025, 07:12 pm
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The country is embracing AI at breakneck speed – driven by state support, local models, and a hunger to scale up fast and beat the United States.
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The article highlights China's rapid integration of AI across various sectors, emphasizing its commitment to outpacing Western counterparts like the United States. China's expansive AI deployment, including unconventional uses such as in nightclubs, underscores its pursuit of technological dominance and innovation. While this widespread adoption signifies China's ambitions, it also raises questions about potential surveillance and data security implications, given the lack of transparency and governance in such deployments. The article touches on global AI safety discourse by illustrating the scale and speed at which a major nation can deploy AI, although it does not delve deeply into the associated catastrophic risks.
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Jessica SierNorth Asia correspondentJun 23, 2025 – 1.41pmSaveLog inorSubscribeto save articleShareCopy linkCopiedEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookCopy linkCopiedShare via...Gift this articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber?LoginUnder the kaleidoscopic lights of INS Park, one of Shanghai’s largest nightclubs, the dance floor pulses to more than just music – it responds to algorithms.Beams of light slice across grass growing out of the walls, and screens show images of rollicking ocean waves that morph into an explosion of fast-growing mushrooms. Bodies writhe and jump under the flashing lights.Loading...SaveLog inorSubscribeto save articleShareCopy linkCopiedEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookCopy linkCopiedShare via...Gift this articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber?LoginLicense articleFollow the topics, people and companies that matter to you.Find out moreRead MoreTrade warsChinaAICanvaNvidiaJessica SierNorth Asia correspondentJessica Sier is the North Asia Correspondent for The Australian Financial Review. She is based in Tokyo, Japan. Jessica has previously written on technology, global capital markets and economics.Connect withJessicaonTwitter.EmailJessicaatjessica.sier@afr.comFetching latest articlesIt’s the coolest chalet in Switzerland – though not for everyoneMatthew DrummondHotel dining used to be bland. Now it’s reinventing room service2 top Melbourne creatives join forces for a new restaurantThe CEO of this $7b company is doubling his workforce – by using AIPatrick DurkinThis executive tripled his salary in 5 years. Here is how he did itHow a banker, coal owner and pokies baron passed the ESG pub testThis Sydney financier dreams of hitting the road with David BeckhamLife & LeisureThis Aston Martin can be tailored to your taste – but it will cost youThis re-released best-selling handbag is now yours for $9450Toorak Rich Listers caught up in mansion fireHannah Wootton‘How very Sydney’: Justin Hemmes forced to unleash charm offensiveBillionaire Geminder mulls asset sales at struggling Pro-Pac business