Is It Legal to Replace Workers with AI? Inside China’s Hangzhou Ruling—and What It Means for Employers and Tech Talent Worldwide
A courtroom in Hangzhou, one of China’s most aggressive AI hubs, just put a hard limit on the hottest corporate instinct of the decade: swapping people for large language models. In early May 2026, a senior technologist won reinstatement and back pay after being dismissed solely because an LLM could automate his coding and analysis…