A Study of the Effects of Artificial Intelligence on New Quality Productivity in Provincial Areas of China
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DOI: 10.25236/ieesasm.2024.014
Corresponding Author
Yuhan Su
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to explore the effect of AI on the new quality productivity of Chinese provinces and its mechanism of action. Against the background of China's vigorous development of new quality productivity and entering a new stage of development, this paper empirically analyzes it based on the panel data of 30 provinces in China from 2010 to 2022, using a two-way fixed-effects model. It is found that AI has a significant positive impact on new-quality productivity, and this conclusion still holds after a series of robustness tests and endogeneity tests. The mechanism analysis shows that the overall upgrading of industrial structure plays a mediating role between AI and new-quality productivity, which promotes the improvement of regional science and technology innovation level. Heterogeneity analysis found that the impact of AI on new quality productivity is more obvious in the eastern and high economic development level regions. Therefore, the government and enterprises should propose appropriate strategies for the development level of AI in different regions to help the growth of new productivity and realize the high-quality development of China's economy.
Keywords
Artificial Intelligence, New Quality Productivity, Industrial Structure Upgrade