2025/11/21 Leading Middle Management Reading Day 16
Recently for the past two days I have been very fascinated by something?
Fascinated by what? Not by cigarettes, not by alcohol, nor by women.
It is AI.
For two days I haven’t written any notes.
Why?
Because I wrote a novel using AI.
It took me a day and a night to finish reading it.
AI has only been developing for a few years?
It was simply too shocking.
In a few more years...
Maybe we will really be able to sit back and command robots to do this and that!
In another ten or twenty years.
Will humans become like pets then, only able to watch and provide emotional value?
This reminds me of a book titled “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”.
Friends who are interested can take a look.
After reading it, you will know how amazing the author is.
This book was published in 1950.
The author is Norbert Wiener.
He saw the present back then, and even foresaw the future world.
What prophecies did he make?
First, he warned people not to be optimized away by algorithms.
Is this accurate? Look around at how people are immersed in the world of short videos every day, are they not enveloped by algorithms?
Second, he predicted the unemployment, privacy crises, and control issues that AI might bring.
How should this be understood?
Go search for comparison videos of car factories from the 1970s and now on Douyin.
Back then, car factories were filled with people, and now?
Third, he proposed that “human-machine collaboration can amplify human capabilities,” rather than a simple replacement relationship.
How should this be understood?
Let me give an example from the family education industry I am currently working in.
For instance, a streamer can attract hundreds of clients in a day.
If one salesperson were to take over that task, they would be overwhelmed and achieve very little.
But what about AI?
It can engage with thousands of clients at once.
We are moving towards this step.
All of these are foreseeable in the next six months.
Oh!
Let’s not create anxiety late at night.
This book actually reminds us more: in an era of rapid technological advancement, humans still have their unique value, which lies precisely in those traits that differentiate us from machines: emotions, creativity, moral judgment, and unique life experiences.
What is the purpose of living as a human?
Two words summarize it: experience!
It’s getting late, I checked the time, it’s already 0:15.
Let’s get started!