CHINA A.I. CHIME : COMPREHENSION ESSAY

'' A tech issue for China : Too much A.I. use.'' And Beijing seeks to regulate effects on citizens and threats to social order.

As China's government pushes its citizens to embrace artificial intelligence, it is confronting a problem partly of its own making : overreliance on the technology.

State media reports have featured stories that serve as cautionary tales : a farmer who lost fields of seedlings after asking A.I, for advice.

Children who have become so attached to chatbots that they want their parents to speak like them and A.I. generated micro dramas with characters that look like carbon copies of one another.

These cases and others have raised concerns in China that as it rushes to catch up with the United States. in A.I., it is running into adverse side effects created by the new technology, which is accused of undermining human relationships and depriving people of their better judgment.

The government seeking to direct how people use the technology has responded by imposing new regulations and judicial guidelines on its use - and misuse.

The response reflects how the ruling Communist Party is trying to balance its ambitions to promote the widespread use of A.I. with the desire to avoid anything that might undermine social order, say analysts.

The party is '' recognising that the more they develop the technology, the more there's going to be social challenges that they have to deal with,'' said Scott Singer, a fellow and co-director of the China A.I. Initiative at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

'' Where the party is sensitive is any area where they feel like the technology is getting better in a way that fundamentally could disrupt social stability.

Mr. Singer said the party is particularly sensitive to disruptions caused not only to human relationships but also the job market, as A.I. threatens to replace workers.

!WOW! thanks Yan Zhuang.