For the same reason that a farmer wants a tractor and a seamstress wants a sewing machine. Controlling the machines that do the work is less exhausting and high

For the same reason that a farmer wants a tractor and a seamstress wants a sewing machine. Controlling the machines that do the work is less exhausting and higher-status than doing the work yourself. Of course not all Chinese think like that, but an optimist view of future technology seems much more prevalent in Chinese-language media than in the English-speaking world. Maybe that's because China is still at a relatively low level of industrial automation and trying to catch up to advanced manufacturing economies like Japan or Germany with their "Made in China 2025" initiative. And the overall optimism doesn't mean there aren't also critical voices, worried that instead it will be the machines controlling the humans who do the work. E.g. Renwu recently published an article about delivery drivers struggling to meet the deadlines set by the system, which you can read translated into English by Jeffrey Ding here: https://chinai.substack.com/p/chinai-111-algorithms-and-food-delivery https://chinai.substack.com/p/chinai-111-algorithms-and-food...