Chapter 681: Night Talk
This big meal almost broke the night heron, and it was not until the second half of the night that she recovered from the malaise, considering the particularity of those tree roots, Song Lan did not sleep well this night, he paid close attention to the digestion of the night heron, and when the little girl came back to life with full blood, it was almost dawn outside.
Fortunately, there was a group of migrant workers in the building opposite to accompany him. Until the night heron's lower abdomen flattened and he was about to become too sleepy to hold on, those conscientious migrant workers were still sticking to their posts, and anti-fatigue drugs seemed to have become their snacks.
This can't help but make Song Lan wonder what such a life is for. In order to maintain more efficient and lasting work efficiency, the company will replace most of the parts in their bodies in the first year of work, and some of the implantable prostheses can not only maintain their physical health under long-term work, but also greatly inhibit their desires, making them a group of An'an workers.
"Aren't they any different from robots?" Song Lan yawned.
"Yes." Lu Xiang does not deny this statement,
"The prosthetics used in work and daily life are different from military-grade prostheses, and even if a large number of implants are performed, they rarely cause cyberpsychosis, and some experts believe that this mental illness is related to people's own thoughts and desires." She remembers hearing lectures from experts in the school who studied such diseases when she was in school at Daystar, who believed that many of people's suffering stems from unsatisfying desires, whether it is the instinctive need for wealth, power, or sex, and that the probability of cyberpsychosis can be greatly reduced.
"In retrospect, many of their theories were later used in real life, and many working operating systems on the market now have the function of suppressing desires."
"Then they might as well replace their employees with artificial intelligence."
"Because the AI Law prohibits this, the Council explicitly regulates the use of AI by each type of company." If there were no laws related to artificial intelligence, more than 80% of the jobs would probably be replaced by humans.
"These laws are the basic law and order to maintain society, otherwise unemployed people are very likely to become criminals, but even if there are clear laws, they can't restrain the behavior of companies, although they can't use artificial intelligence on a large scale, but they can transform the company's employees to become more and more like people, after implanting so many prostheses, their physiology has changed." Lu Xiang is also unsure whether the migrant workers in District 1 can still be regarded as pure human beings.
However, the company does not want to discuss these issues, let alone let this matter cause widespread discussion in the society, they just need everyone to stay in their posts.
Lu Xiang also moved a chair and sat next to Song Lan all night, and the two of them watched the migrant workers in the opposite building go to work together.
It's hard to find anything more boring than that, but in the process of chatting with Song Lan from one to the other, time flies, and she has rarely found such opportunities before.
Because Song Lan goes to bed early every day, and if it weren't for the fact that this matter was too boring, Song Lan wouldn't have become so talkative.
"The large-scale research on AI and humanoids came shortly after the coalition government was established, and there were many people who realized that the power of AI was too powerful and could crowd people's jobs in the future and cause a series of social problems." Lu Xiang suddenly remembered some interesting anecdotes and said,
"For this reason, the people of that era debated countless times on various occasions, and finally won the victory of those who supported the technical research of the impersonators, who criticized the opponents for unfounded reasons, and firmly believed that the large-scale use of the impersonates would be beneficial to people's lives, and that these faithful assistants would completely liberate mankind from the productive forces." Those people depicted a bright future that even Song Lan would nod his head when he heard it.
"Experts believe that after a few decades of widespread use of human technology, the material standard of living of all people will reach unprecedented heights, everyone will be able to live in a big house, work only 3-5 hours a day to earn enough wealth to squander, and at other times, they will be able to spend their free time with family and friends." Today, decades later, working more than 16 hours a day in District 1 has become the norm.
The company believes that every employee should cherish their work because they have given up on more efficient AI and left the opportunity to work for them.
Artificial intelligence and humanoids have indeed become good helpers for humans, but their allegiance is mainly to the top of the company.
It is true that the big companies have developed exponentially because of artificial intelligence and humanoid technology, but they are more willing to spend their accumulated wealth on business competition and factional warfare than on improving people's lives.
"What made them change their minds and enact the Artificial Intelligence Act?" Song Lan asked curiously.
According to his observations, in this era, it was much more difficult to do things than before the Third War, and the coalition government only needed to dispatch a ruthless six-star rescuer such as Arakush, to easily quell a rebellion in the city.
"It's justice."
"Justice? Those big companies suddenly found out in their conscience? ”
"No, it was justice that used a tactical nuclear bomb to detonate half of Tesla's technology headquarters, and in order to avoid the next justice, the council was forced to introduce many policies during that period." has been with Song Lan for a long time, and Lu Xiang's knowledge has also been expanded.
For the coalition government, δ, domination, and justice are in a dark period of demons roaming wildly, and their emergence has caused countless casualties, but objectively has caused the corporate top management to revise the law in fear of its power.
If you look at this from a historical perspective, δ after they were imprisoned, the company once again ushered in a period of vigorous development.
Longer working hours and more and more unequal working terms are also products of this period.
"Maybe you'll be able to meet the Speaker soon, and maybe some of your ideas will change the lives of those on the other side." Lu Xiang said.
Even she had never met the Speaker in real life, and the other party was undoubtedly one of the hardest people in the world to meet.
Soon after Song Lan returned, they submitted an application through MI7 to meet with the Chairperson, and Natalie relayed their idea to MI7 higher-ups, who then prepared a written report and submitted it to the Council's Secretariat, and if the report could be approved by the Secretariat, it could enter the regular appointment process.
It's a complicated process, and if any of the people who have been replaced by worms are mixed in, the application will eventually fail.
Because of this, Lu Xiang did not explain the clues they investigated. If all goes well, it will be at least three or four days before I see the speaker himself.
"By the way, Jasmine said that Akon's condition has stabilized and is no longer life-threatening, but it may take about a week to fully recover, and when she arrived, she didn't meet the former MI7 agent you mentioned." It seems that the other party can't trust anyone anymore after being betrayed once.
……………………………………… At the same time, a prosthetic hospital in the first district.
"Listen to me, Sister Jasmine, I think I've got it all figured out!" Ignoring the pain in his body and refusing to listen to the advice of the doctor, Jasmine, he stubbornly sat up straight, gesturing with his hands in the air in order to make the other party understand what he meant.
Ever since he regained consciousness, he'd been wondering what had happened to them as they escaped the sewers.
"I've seen through his abilities!"
"Shhhh Jasmine made a gesture of silence, wondering how well the hospital room was soundproofed and if there would be spies planted by the Worm Clan in the hospital.
Obviously, Yakong did not learn from this and still carried out his cannon fodder-like style. But the curiosity in her heart drove Jasmine, after all, Yakong could be regarded as one of the direct witnesses at the scene.
He had experienced first-hand the strange phenomena that were caused when his abilities were activated. After being reminded, Yakong lowered his voice, but his tone was as firm as ever,
"You can't be wrong, that person's ability is definitely a interference-type ability, and its effect is to make the person affected by the ability have a temporary amnesia!" This explains all the anomalies.
"And his abilities have a wide impact when activated!" That's why they forget how they escaped from the sewer with the help of the other party, the driver forgot that he was driving the car, the office worker walking on the road forgot that there was a billboard in front of him, and the person operating the drone forgot the stairs under his feet, causing himself to roll down the stairs with one foot in the air.
"If I had to pick a name, I'd call it memory erasure!" Adam's detective eyes plunged Jasmine's eyes into deep darkness.
Only then did she realize that she had made a serious mistake and would have pinned her hopes on Akora—a man who had witnessed the scene but had no idea what a terrible phenomenon had happened at that moment.
"You'd better lie down." Seeing that Yakong was covered in injuries, Jasmine did not refute the other party,
"I have an urgent meeting ahead." She wasn't lying, because of what happened last night, the Council urgently convened a meeting for the Six Star Rescuers.
Before the meeting officially began, each of them received a video. The video does show high-end cars, office workers, and people standing on the stairs to manipulate drones to shoot night scenes, all of which were captured by the surveillance probe of that section.
And all the weird things happen between the 6th and 7th seconds of the video. In that fleeting moment, everything on the street jumped in leaps and bounds.
Yakong and the girl he was traveling with appeared on the street out of thin air, and around them, cars, office workers, photographers, and drones in the night sky all teleported at the same time.
It's like ...... The period of time they have gone through has disappeared from this world out of thin air. This is clearly not what Yakon thinks
"Amnestic erasure" can explain the phenomenon!