Bloomberg published a piece.

Stanford University’s AI Index finds that 84% of people in China are excited about AI, the highest level among surveyed countries. In the US, only 38% say the same.

Chinese optimism comes from expecting technology's gains to reach ordinary people and believing the state will restrain powerful companies.

American skepticism, on the other hand is dominated by social-media harms, misinformation, concentrated platform power and job-loss forecasts.

The optimism gap may partly come down to who is already feeling AI’s threat at work. Nearly 80% of Americans work in services, versus about 46% in China, and generative AI is hitting those jobs first. Many Chinese workers simply haven’t felt the same pressure yet.