{"id":77320,"date":"2026-05-13T23:58:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/13\/china-court-awards-compensation-sacked-worker-replaced-by-ai"},"modified":"2026-05-13T23:58:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:58:57","slug":"chinese-court-awards-compensation-to-sacked-worker-replaced-by-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=77320","title":{"rendered":"Chinese court awards compensation to sacked worker replaced by AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Case attracts widespread attention as example of China balancing enthusiastic adoption of AI with job security<\/p>\n<p>A court in China has ruled in favour of a worker whose company replaced him with artificial intelligence (AI), awarding him more than \u00a328,000 in compensation.<\/p>\n<p>The worker, whose surname is Zhou, joined a tech company in the eastern city of Hangzhou in 2022 as a quality assurance supervisor overseeing large language models used in AI products.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/13\/china-court-awards-compensation-sacked-worker-replaced-by-ai\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Case attracts widespread attention as example of China balancing enthusiastic adoption of AI with job securityA court in China has ruled in favour of a worker whose company replaced him with artificial intelligence (AI), awarding him more than \u00a328,000 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3492,41,50,800,233,58,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai-artificial-intelligence","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-computing","category-money","category-technology","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77321,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77320\/revisions\/77321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}