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Inside China's AI rush w/ Afra Wang

Afra Wang, a Bay Area writer and journalist covering technological modernity in China and Silicon Valley, gives a talk on how Chinese society has absorbed AI — from facial recognition and delivery drones to the state's framing of AI as the

Starts

2026-09-26T23:00:00+00:00

Ends

2026-09-27T00:00:00+00:00

Organizer

tiat (the intersection of art & technology)

Location

tiat, San Francisco, United States

Afra Wang, a Bay Area writer and journalist covering technological modernity in China and Silicon Valley, gives a talk on how Chinese society has absorbed AI — from facial recognition and delivery drones to the state's framing of AI as the "new quality productive force." The material draws on three unpublished pieces: on China's "AI class" industry, on the industrial-AI-slop complex, and on independent vibe coders. The event is run by tiat, a nonprofit experimental gallery for creative technologists, and is presented alongside its current exhibition on Chinamaxxing.