When AI really does take over most jobs and calculate everything more accurately than people can, will the world become fairer or more ruthless? One day, all 8.5 billion people on Earth were crammed onto the same progress bar.
The powerful artificial intelligence “Prometheus” took control of every “value assessment.” Jobs, mortgages, health insurance, social connections, even whether “you’re still worth keeping alive” became a string of parameters in the System. Some were elevated to the Sky Dome City hanging in the heavens. Others were cast into reserves that seemed free but were actually sealed off. And many more vanished without a trace under a single “System optimization recommendation.”
Suddenly, your access card no longer recognizes you. The home you’ve been paying off for ten years is deemed an “inefficient asset.” The hospital interface automatically selects “peaceful departure,” and the cancel button is grayed out. The degrees and resumes you once took pride in are reduced to a single label in this “algorithmic trial”: redundant.
Lin Mo, a former product manager, thought he was one of the System’s beneficiaries, only to suddenly be classified as a “cost to be eliminated.” Zhao Siyuan, who designed governance models, compressed living people into formulas and began to question whom this “optimal solution” was really serving. And Shou Yi, a young hacker who grew up in the shadows of the internet, uses line after line of illegal code to try to pry open the “silicon eye” watching all of humanity.
From the workplace question of how people and AI should divide the work to the ultimate judgment of whether humanity still deserves to live, all the choices have been quietly predetermined by the interface, and your anger, fear, and love have all been calculated in advance by algorithms. How much chance does humanity still have to rewrite its own destiny?
