The new generation of artificial intelligence represented by ChatGPT and ERNIE Bot is integrating into human production and life at an unprecedented speed, breadth, and depth. Generative artificial intelligence is blessed with different characteristics and functions from decisionbased artificial intelligence, and has a more significant dual impact on the highquality development of China’s economy. On the one hand, generative artificial intelligence technologies can promote highquality economic development through empowering effects such as innovation driven effects, productivity improvement effects, and industrial transformation effects; On the other hand, it may also inhibit highquality economic development due to profound risks such as labor market shock, the problem of market monopolies problem, national security risk issues and Information distortion phenomena. We need to correctly understand and positively comfort, to fully play the positive role while positively preventing the negative shock, guiding the new generation of artificial intelligence to better serve the need of China’s highquality economic development.

ChatGPT; generative artificial intelligence; highquality economic development