China’s national trade union deploys 24/7 AI assistant for workers
TL;DR
On December 18, 2025 (late evening ET), China Daily reported that the All-China Federation of Trade Unions has launched an AI-powered platform to provide round-the-clock legal advice, policy analysis and document drafting for workers. The system integrates large-model computing, a knowledge base of union rules and a suite of AI-native applications serving millions via the “workers’ home” app.
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This article aggregates reporting from 2 news sources. The TL;DR is AI-generated from original reporting. Race to AGI's analysis provides editorial context on implications for AGI development.
Race to AGI Analysis
China’s biggest trade union quietly turning itself into an AI platform operator is a revealing data point. Instead of just companies deploying chatbots for customer service, you now have a mass-membership labor institution using large-model infrastructure for legal triage, internal knowledge management and document automation. That normalizes AI as a default interface for workers navigating benefits, disputes and training, and it does so on top of a centrally managed stack that can be tuned for political and policy goals.
From an AGI perspective, the technical novelty here isn’t the model itself but the scale and domain-specific integration. The federation is building a domain-tuned ‘union model’ backed by large-scale compute, curated legal and policy corpora, and production use across millions of workers. That generates exactly the kind of structured feedback and interaction data that can feed better reasoning systems over time. It also shows how state-linked actors in China are embedding AI into public-facing institutions, which will both generate pressure to keep models competitive with Western counterparts and create a parallel governance stack around how AI mediates labor rights and social services.
