Kuala Lampur, May 5 -- As the world remains embroiled in the US-China trade spat, an interesting live broadcast took place in Moscow recently. At the "Youth Conference of the Valdai Discussion Club's New Generation Project", a peculiar topic caught my attention - a discussion on artificial intelligence and technology.

Contrary to popular view, AI is not viewed with the same rose-coloured lenses by Generation Z, like myself. An AI-driven future is not one that provides us with the comfort of job security as well as our privacy. Thus, when a topic like this is being discussed in a country like Russia, it arguably deserves closer attention.

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