{"id":1010672,"date":"2026-05-29T08:44:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T03:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1010672"},"modified":"2026-05-29T08:45:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T03:15:46","slug":"jd-com-founder-vows-to-protect-chinese-jobs-from-ai-and-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/29\/jd-com-founder-vows-to-protect-chinese-jobs-from-ai-and-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"JD.com founder vows to protect Chinese jobs from AI and robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JD.com Inc. founder Liu Qiangdong vowed to prevent the e-commerce firm\u2019s 900,000-strong workforce from losing their jobs to automation, seeking to allay growing fears that the adoption of AI and robotics could replace workers. <\/p>\n<p>The company, which is one of the country\u2019s largest employers by headcount, will \u201cdo everything possible to safeguard employment for hundreds of thousands of staff, including blue-collar workers,\u201d Liu said in an internal speech on Wednesday, according to a video circulating on social media. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cJD.com will not fire a single front-line worker replaced by machines,\u201d he said. JD didn\u2019t respond to an emailed request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JD.com Inc. founder Liu Qiangdong vowed to prevent the e-commerce firm\u2019s 900,000-strong workforce from losing their jobs to automation, seeking to allay growing fears that the adoption of AI and robotics could replace workers. The company, which is one of the country\u2019s largest employers by headcount, will \u201cdo everything possible to safeguard employment for hundreds of thousands of staff, including blue-collar workers,\u201d Liu said in an internal speech on Wednesday, according to a video circulating on social media. \u201cJD.com will not fire a single front-line worker replaced by machines,\u201d he said. JD didn\u2019t respond to an emailed request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010673,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010672\/revisions\/1010673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}