Recent incidents of white-collar workers being replaced by AI have also added to the fears of large-scale unemployment resulting from the use of this new technology. Addressing Shanghai’s World AI Conference in July, Chinese President Xi Jinping said that AI should be “an important driver for shared prosperity and common security”. "As well as suffering from high levels of unemployment, China has seen tens of millions of workers drop out of formal employment into the gig economy. Recent court rulings have awarded compensation to white-collar workers laid off by their firms to be replaced by AI. But many workers fear that the rollout of AI will leave fewer jobs in the market for them to get employment.