"The First Year of AI" is a work that focuses on the living conditions of ordinary people under the impact of AI in the near future. It tells the story of ordinary people such as Liu Jinfeng, the owner of a hardware factory, his wife Xu Fangfang, daughter Liu Quan, and her daughter's boyfriend Zhang Lei, who were gradually squeezed out of their living space by intelligent systems in the era of ghost GDP in the first year of AI when AI technology fully penetrated all walks of life. As a graduate student, Liu Quan used her eyes and recording pen to record how these people who were left behind by the express train of the times found their own way out amidst the separation of their families, deprivation of work and loss of dignity. With a calm and restrained style, this book depicts a social fable in the AI era, asking what is the value of those lives that are not efficient enough when efficiency becomes the only criterion.
