JD.com founder Liu Qiangdong vowed in an internal speech to protect the firm’s 900,000 workers from AI displacement. The pledge sits uneasily with JD’s heavy automation footprint and his own ‘unmanned era’ framing.

JD.com founder Liu Qiangdong vowed in an internal speech to protect the firm’s 900,000 workers from AI displacement. The pledge sits uneasily with JD’s heavy automation footprint…

Company has set up more than 80 training bases around China to retrain workers. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.