Why China Fears the ‘A.I. Girlfriend’ | Interesting Times with Ross Douthat @InterestingTimesNYT
Why China Fears the ‘A.I. Girlfriend’ | Interesting Times with Ross Douthat  @InterestingTimesNYT
Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
China is worried A.I. companions could be a drag on productivity. On “Interesting Times,” Kyle Chan, a foreign policy fellow at the Brookings Institution, tells the Opinion columnist Ross Douthat that the government thinks youth “should be engineering the future and building out the start-ups and the future Chinese versions of SpaceX.”

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