The title is misleading. The Chinese ruling does not forbid companies from AI-based layoffs as the article explicitly says.
Citing Moshe Lander, economics professor at Concordia University, it says that
the ruling, which was issued ahead of China’s Labour Day on May 1, was likely a messaging and “self-preservation” exercise for the ruling Chinese Communist Party …
Such a ruling would be difficult to enforce, let alone in a democratic country, as the article also says while opening up alternatives:
Simon Blanchette, a management faculty lecturer at McGill University who researches AI and the future of work, said that … “in terms of practicality and the real outcome and externalities of it, it remains to be seen what would be the benefit tangibly" … "I think there other ways we could be exploring to help workers more, and have a more ‘AI-ready’ future.”
The title is misleading. The Chinese ruling does not forbid companies from AI-based layoffs as the article explicitly says.
Citing Moshe Lander, economics professor at Concordia University, it says that
Such a ruling would be difficult to enforce, let alone in a democratic country, as the article also says while opening up alternatives:
Ah yes, because if one thing that CPC is bad at is enforcing policy. 🤡