China has spent two years telling the world it intends to win the AI race. Its new five-year employment plan is the quieter admission that winning it could cost a lot of people their jobs. The State Council, effectively China’s cabinet, has issued its blueprint for employment policy from 2026 to 2030. Buried in a document mostly concerned with factories, graduates and migrant workers is an instruction that matters well beyond China: the state is to start tracking, in detail, how artificial intelligence creates and destroys work. The plan was signed on June 11 and published on June 17. It...