Xu Xincheng secretly screamed in his heart that it was not good, and the topic of the chat was led by him to this topic that should not be involved, he said to himself, to make a difference, to see if he could guide the topic in a positive direction, so, he raised his voice a little, said: "Artificial intelligence also has a lot of positive and positive effects on our human society, and things always have two sides." ”

However, as if Jiang Shuwen hadn't heard what he said at all, he sighed and continued to say with a depressed face: "The ultimate goal and result of this 'work revolution' is only one, that is, 'to abolish all human work'.

In fact, I was aware of this problem years ago. My father's company began replacing workers with intelligent robots on a large scale a few years ago. Over the years, FSK's business has grown every year, but it has been constantly laying off employees every year. You should remember a few years ago, there were many employee jumping incidents in that company that attracted the attention of all walks of life and even the world, right?"

Xu Xincheng nodded, looking at his increasingly depressed expression, he began to worry in his heart, thinking that the current situation was getting worse and worse. However, he has known Jiang Shuwen for almost a year, and he already knows him quite well, and whenever he is depressed, he likes to talk endlessly, sometimes even to the point of incoherence. He felt that he should be allowed to continue instead of interrupting him.

Jiang Shuwen suddenly raised his voice, with a miserable face, and said: "After the occurrence of those major events, FSK was unanimously condemned by public opinion all over the world, facing an unprecedented public relations crisis, in order to fundamentally avoid the occurrence of similar major events and public relations crises, the chairman of that company formulated and launched the 'FSK Intelligent Robot Plan' at the end of that year.

According to the plan, they will introduce more advanced and intelligent robots on a large scale, with a view to drastically reducing the number of workers. From the second year after the implementation of this plan, the company began to lay off employees.

The program was initially targeted only at workers on the production line, and was gradually expanded to other departments. The company purchased the third-generation AI financial robot at the beginning of the previous year. At the time, my father was quite happy about this, saying that the work of their department was much easier.

I told him right then that that was good for the company, but not good for the employees. He said that the financial robot is actually not so intelligent, can only do some of the most basic work, judging by his 33 years of financial experience, it will at least need more than ten years of improvement and optimization to be competent for the professional work of those senior financial personnel, by that time, he has already retired honorably. ”

Speaking of this, Jiang Shuwen stopped, let out a long sigh, and sighed: "Alas! In the face of the upcoming wave of unemployment, the biggest problem now is ignorance, and the vast majority of people are still in a state of ignorance, which is the most terrifying. My father is a prime example of this.

At the beginning of last year, the company purchased the fourth generation of AI financial robots, and the functions of the fourth generation have been extended to many things that can only be done by senior financial personnel before, and the work efficiency is about 50 times higher than that of the third generation, and they can complete about 30% of the work of the finance department.

In the third month after the introduction of the fourth-generation AI financial robot, the finance department was laid off by 30% of the staff, several of whom were old colleagues who had worked with him for more than 20 years, and my father began to realize the seriousness of the problem, that is, from that time, he had trouble sleeping and eating, and often worried until he couldn't sleep at night, and in just one year, he lost more than 20 pounds, and his hair was all white.

This year, when I spent the Spring Festival in my hometown, my hometown villagers and friends were happy to celebrate the New Year, but my father was depressed all the time, and I asked him if there was anything wrong, and he refused to say.

On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, the two of us took the high-speed train back to Guangzhou and Shenzhen from our hometown, and on the high-speed rail, he finally told me the reason.

It turned out that he heard the news that the company had purchased the fifth generation of AI financial robots before the Spring Festival, and it was said that the work efficiency of the fifth generation was about 50 times higher than that of the fourth generation, and the company was planning to lay off employees, and the scale of this layoff was much larger than the last time, and he was very worried that he would be in the list of layoffs.

Father said that in the past year, he felt like the old farming cow in his rural hometown a few decades ago, he has been working in that company since graduating from the college in finance and accounting, and he has been working for that company for more than 30 years.

More than 30 years ago, when the rural cooperative in our hometown started buying cultivators, all the cattle must not have understood why we humans wanted to buy those machines that suddenly sounded.

At that time, all the cultivators did not know that their days were coming to an end, as the performance of the cultivator became better and better, and the efficiency became higher and higher, the cultivator, this species that played an important role in the period of human farming civilization, this species that was once respected and loved by generations of farmers, and this species that was praised by many literati and writers in poems and lyrics, was replaced in a short period of time and was on the verge of extinction.

And he is an old ploughing ox, and the most unfortunate thing is that, unlike those ignorant and insensitive ploughing oxen who don't know that their days are coming to an end, he has always been very clear that his days are coming to an end this year.

The saddest thing is that, like the cultivators, these financial workers did not make mistakes, did not do anything wrong, on the contrary, they contributed a huge amount to the progress of human society and contributed their all. But just as millions of ploughing cattle were quickly replaced by ploughing machines in a short period of time, so will they be quickly replaced by AI financial robots. ”

Jiang Shuwen paused for a while, took a few breaths sharply, as if he was accumulating courage, and after a while, he said: "In the hospital, on the hospital bed, my father said to me with tears in his eyes that the moment he was told that he had been fired, he had a feeling that the sky was falling apart, and he felt that he was completely denied and destroyed, and as a professional financial officer, all the sense of value and dignity that he had accumulated for more than 30 years was completely denied and destroyed in an instant.

At that moment, he felt a suffocating despair, and he was simply useless and worthless in the face of those cold machines and programs that could work dozens or even hundreds of times more efficiently than him.

At the moment when he fainted and fell to the ground, he even felt that the value and meaning of his life had been completely denied and destroyed. ”

Jiang Shuwen cried out in grief, tears flowing.

Xu Xincheng listened silently on the side, never interjected, did not try to steer this heavy topic in a positive direction, just looked at him with concern, and nodded sympathetically from time to time.

He knew that at this time, what he needed most in grief was to confide, and only by letting him say everything he wanted to say, and only by letting him shed all his tears, would his heart feel better.