When People Reach Middle Age, AI Is Coming

When Xu Heng, a 42-year-old middle-level cadre of a state-owned enterprise, was forced to draw up a "personnel optimization plan" in two weeks that could end the career lives of himself and more than 40 subordinates because the standardized administrative system that he had carefully built over 20 years turned out to be the best target for AI replacement. At the same time, a deeper crisis is quietly fermenting within the system - the wave of AI reform is not just an efficiency revolution, it is systematically destroying human experience and organizational memory that cannot be digitized.