“Of course, this needs to take into account the development speed and trends of artificial intelligence technology.

Artificial intelligence can be divided into weak AI, strong AI, and super AI, according to its intelligence level.

The difference between these three is, in short, that weak AI performs simple labor, strong AI thinks like humans, and super AI far exceeds humans.

Let's not talk about the latter two for the time being.

The people in the chat room believe that, just in terms of the development trend of weak AI,

once weak AI and automated mechanical technology mature, they will undergo a qualitative change, like reaching a threshold.

First of all, this change will start from the factories.

Cheap, precise, never-failing, and without labor contracts, intelligent robotic arms are the most perfect and cost-effective workers,"

Black Trojan said quietly, "Capital's pursuit of monetary gains is greedy, cold, and ruthless.

If a human worker can produce enough industrial products to satisfy 200 ordinary residents,

then a mature intelligent robotic arm will be ten times, a hundred times more efficient than the former.

Soon, factories will begin large-scale upgrades,

and robotic arms will ruthlessly drive human laborers out of the factories. Even if the authorities issue relevant regulations to ensure employment rates, ordering factory owners to hire some human laborers, it will be of no avail.

Ordinary human workers who don't understand computer science have no competitiveness in the face of automated robotic arms.

The agriculture that has grown strong relying on modern industry is also the same. Large automated machines roam the vast fields, cultivating crops precisely and perfectly according to pre-set programs, and their efficiency is far higher than that of American agriculture today.

At that time, human workers can only shine in the service industry.

The global industrial population required can be reduced to the level of ten million—and these people will be the elites who understand computer science and can participate in the optimization of AI and the improvement of automated machinery.”

Black Trojan took a deep breath and continued, "The job positions created by new industries are unlikely to accommodate the large-scale unemployed population, and the entry threshold for new industries is far beyond the reach of ordinary people.

Large-scale unemployment is inevitable, but thanks to the hard work of intelligent machines, the produced industrial and agricultural products can still afford to support the unemployed, so there won't be a famine or disaster."

"Hmm."

Li Ang frowned slightly. With his superficial understanding of the field of artificial intelligence,

modern weak AI and automated machinery are likely to realize the social form deduction in Black Trojan's mouth.

But what about after that?

Limited by the times and technology, even the most talented people or think tanks cannot make a very detailed and accurate deduction of social forms.

Proposing a general direction is okay, but it would be a pipe dream to be accurate to the "year" or "decade."

Similar to the elevator effect proposed by Asimov, that is, the predictions of the future in science fiction literature are very likely to be biased due to the lack of key factors such as certain technologies in the future.

Seeming to see Li Ang's distrust, Black Trojan continued, "The group of people who first established Whale Song were just researchers in the field of computer science.

They understand the elevator effect and know that they are not sociologists, psychologists, or philosophers, or financiers.

Their vision dictates that they can only see the direction of development in the field of computer science.

But one thing they reached a consensus on is the evil nature of capital.

Capitalists are the personification of capital. When capital comes into the world, from head to toe, every pore drips with blood and dirty things. Extracting surplus value is the instinct that capital possesses and the only one it possesses, and it is the starting point and ultimate destination for them to engage in all economic and even non-economic activities.

For the sake of profit, personified capital can carry out conquest, enslavement, plunder, and killing. And when its influence reaches a certain level, even extracting surplus value cannot satisfy them.

They will instinctively start to constantly test the bottom line of the law. They do this not to confront minyi (public opinion) and the violent machine head-on, but to test the violent machine's determination to maintain the law.

Once they find a weakness, they will swarm up like leeches, doing everything they can to transform the surrounding space into an environment suitable for their growth, and then look for the next target.

The computer science elites in the chat room unanimously believe that weak AI and automated mechanical technology will greatly stimulate the productivity of human society.

This productivity can be used to support humans, enclose humans, and raise humans,

or it can be used to manufacture drone legions produced by automated factories.

And this productivity and the violence brought about by productivity, in any case, cannot be controlled by the personification of capital."

"Wait."

Li Ang suddenly reacted, "Are you saying that the group of people who established Whale Song were..."

"That's right."

Black Trojan agreed, "They are all traitors to the free world of the West, determined to fight to the end against the personified group of capital."

""

Even Li Ang couldn't help but feel a burst of chrysanthemum tightness. He didn't expect that after such a big detour, the Whale Song organization turned out to be good comrades from overseas (at least a neutral faction).

It really is that our comrades are all over the world, and have even penetrated into the internal affairs of some organizations.

Li Ang asked, "And then?"

Black Trojan replied, "The people in the chat room vaguely realized that the fourth industrial revolution in the 21st century has five development directions:

First, new materials, especially new materials for electronic products.

Second, genetic engineering.

Third, AI, that is, artificial intelligence.

Fourth, quantum science.

Fifth, nuclear fusion related technologies.

These five development directions have not yet seen hope for a major breakthrough. Even weak AI requires a long development cycle.

So, the people in the chat room established a small-scale secret organization, named 'Whale Song,'

meaning that elites in the field of computer science are all over the world. Although they cannot gather in the real world,

they must be like whales, sending out long and distant whale songs in the deep sea, watching out for each other, constantly monitoring the development and breakthroughs of artificial intelligence and automated mechanical technology,

and at critical moments, preventing the personification of capital from getting the key to weak AI and even strong AI."

Black Trojan smiled bitterly, "At that time, the group of people who formed Whale Song were still young and vigorous youngsters in their chuunibyou (adolescent delusions of grandeur) phase. As time went by,

the overly idealistic and empty-talking Whale Song organization has not accomplished anything substantial. It is basically just a group of computer science elites chatting idly.

It was not until the start of the Killing Game seven months ago that the Whale Song organization underwent a fundamental transformation."