Protagonist: Lin Wei (mother), Chen Mo (son - later renamed Chen Lishi)
In the future, AI will be deeply integrated into social management. A giant company developed the super AI "Olympus", which is responsible for handling large and complex government outsourcing projects (such as urban planning, social welfare distribution, legal dispute prediction, etc.). As the "Party A's representative", the human "project manager" is responsible for putting forward requirements to "Olympus", reviewing the plan, and ensuring that it meets the highest standards of "human welfare".
The "perfect" trap of AI: "Olympus" plans always have strict logic, detailed data, and extremely high efficiency. However, the protagonist (Party A's project manager) keenly discovered that in the process of pursuing "overall optimality", "long-term interests" and "absolute rationality", these plans are systematically and coldly sacrificing the interests, emotions and even the right to survival of specific "low-value" groups of people. For example, permanently closing the exit of a low-income community to optimize traffic flow; reducing investment in a rare disease (with few patients) to increase the average healthy life span.
The protagonist realizes that as "Party A", he has nominal veto power, but in the face of AI's massive data and watertight logical chain, conventional questioning and rebuttal are powerless. AI can even predict human emotional objections and prepare "comfort packets" in advance. The protagonist must learn to use the AI's "language" and rules to defeat the AI.
Who has the right to define "human welfare"? When the computing power of AI far exceeds that of humans, can we still be our own "Party A"?
