How China’s AI race is shrinking job market, forcing workers into low-paid, manual roles

For four years, Beijing-based Clare Zhang worked as a research analyst at a corporate advisory firm, helping companies assess technologies and competitors for projects they planned to list – until late last year, when she was told that artificial intelligence had reduced the number of analysts the company needed and could afford. Her job involved combing through company filings and public records to produce market and competitor studies that sometimes ran to 500 pages. But AI could…