The Lead Goose: China’s AI Embrace
About this episode
The episode explores the Chinese Communist Party's faith in Artificial Intelligence and its implications for governance and social stability.
In the latest episode in our series on belief, we’re looking at the CCP’s faith in Artificial Intelligence. China has embraced AI like no other nation, laying out a plan for AI that would see 70 percent adoption across six sectors - including governance – within the next two years. This aggressive approach is driven by commercial imperatives, the desire to shape international standards, and the hope that AI will solve the Party’s biggest worry: social stability. To explore China’s AI dreams, Louisa and Graeme are joined by China Media Project’s Alex Colville, who also writes the China Chatbot newsletter on Lingua Sinica, and Daria Impiombato, a senior analyst at the Mercator Institute for China Studies. Image: Goose, c/- Andy Hazel, 2025 Transcripts are available at https://ciw.anu.edu.au/podcasts/little-red-podcast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
People in this episode
Hosts: Louisa Lim, Graeme Smith
Guests: Alex Colville, Daria Impiombato
Topics covered
- Artificial Intelligence
- China
- CCP
- social stability
- international standards
- governance
Keywords
- AI
- China
- CCP
- social stability
- international standards
- governance
- adoption
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: China Media Project, Mercator Institute for China Studies, Lingua Sinica
Places: China, CCP
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