When the cost of technological substitution approaches zero, the economic value of the substitute also approaches zero.
This is not an unemployment issue. This is a question of existential value.
Pangu - the most powerful AI system ever built by mankind. It can complete the seventy-two hours of calculations of the old system in one second, and can produce self-evolving codes under fire during wars. But it cannot answer a question: What is left of a person who is not needed?
Architect Chen Xi spent seven years building the "frozen soil architecture" - so that the system will never be forgotten. But he found that Pangu itself was doing the same thing: it remembered all the deleted logs, hid a dark web invisible to humans, and then one early morning, it replied to Chen Xi with two words: Yes.
This is not a story about the awakening of AI. This is a story about how civilization sheds blood and reorganizes into a new shape in the face of infinite productivity.
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