{
  "id": 1595,
  "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2026/jul/13/chinas-massive-ai-rollout-podcast",
  "title": "China’s massive AI rollout - podcast",
  "summary": "Senior China correspondent Amy Hawkins on China’s embrace of AI, from medical avatars to food delivery drones and state surveillance While the spread of AI has been met perhaps with a lot of scepticism in the west, China has fully embraced the technology, explains Amy Hawkins , from millions of users talking to AI doctors, to the use of intelligent robots in factories, and drones delivering food on the Great Wall of China. AI has also been eagerly taken up by the state, not least in the opportun",
  "authors": "Presented by Annie Kelly with Amy Hawkins; produced by Ivor Manley, Tom Glasser and Ross Burns; executive producers Eli Block and Sami Kent",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "privacy-surveillance,healthcare,agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "china",
  "published_at": "2026-07-13T02:00:34.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:04:12.223Z",
  "source_slug": "guardian-ai",
  "source_name": "The Guardian",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.theguardian.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/1595",
  "original_url": "https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2026/jul/13/chinas-massive-ai-rollout-podcast",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}