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The study demonstrates that AI significantly improves regional employment quality and shows significant regional heterogeneity, with the strongest effect in eastern China, the second in central China, and the weakest in western China; AI impacts employment quality with a notable lag owing to the time required for technology diffusion and labor skill adjustment. Upgrading of the industrial structure is an important intermediary path for AI to affect employment quality, and the differences between the industrial base and absorptive capacity of different regions aggravate the impact of policies on the quality of employment and their transmission mechanism. Differences in the industrial base and absorptive capacity of different regions exacerbate the unevenness of policy effects. 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