Is Technology Leading Humanity The Ai Landscape is Creating Significant Upheaval

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[People News] Recently, SpaceX, led by Elon Musk, acquired xAI, which is also under Musk's leadership. However, shortly after the acquisition was finalised, two core Chinese members of xAI, who had been with Musk for many years, left the company. This departure means that half of the founding team of 12 has now exited, and several other xAI employees have also resigned, drawing considerable attention and igniting various controversies. Musk quickly announced that everything is fine and that this is a step towards a more ambitious future. xAI, which has only been established for two and a half years, has already made significant waves in the AI landscape. Given the rapid pace of its rise, it is not surprising that employees are struggling to keep up.

Interestingly, there is another issue that is not directly related. The development of AI is primarily focused on replacing human jobs. Even many workers who supply raw materials and consumables for AI development are not exempt from this trend. Furthermore, with the current visible trajectory of development, AI is set to replace the jobs of the vast majority of people, regardless of whether one supports or opposes it, embraces or resists it. Even the Chinese Communist Party, a malevolent regime that is leveraging technology and AI to achieve permanent enslavement of individuals, faces a foreseeable future of being consumed by AI.

As one of the cutting-edge technologies of modern times, artificial intelligence (AI) is intended to enhance convenience for people, freeing them from labour in pursuit of a better self. This vision, this ideal, suggests that while technology has indeed provided numerous conveniences, it has also progressed in a direction that is beyond anyone's control. It is a gradual process where technology first offers you convenience in exchange for some of your autonomy, continues to provide convenience while requiring you to adhere to its rules, and ultimately leads to a situation where you must allow technology to take centre stage. We are now approaching a point where you will have no choice but to let technology take the lead. A few years ago, such a statement would have been dismissed by most as absurd. However, after several years of intense disruption caused by AI technology, many are now confronted with this looming reality.

From the perspective of AI advocates—namely, researchers, large tech companies, and investors—one key reason for pushing AI in this direction is the high comprehensive cost of employing valuable workers in Western countries. This cost is significantly higher than the cost-effectiveness of lifeless technology, which does not face issues related to race or diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), lacks unions, does not require benefits or wages, does not need breaks, and can execute tasks with precision and efficiency, easily being discarded when outdated. In contrast, human employees come with numerous drawbacks.

However, upon deeper reflection, the root of these issues lies in the deliberate creation of problems by leftist ideology. The left aims to divide humanity and incite conflict among different groups, seeking to control and manipulate people. Ironically, it is technology and AI that have seized the opportunity to benefit from this situation.

Over the past few decades, as information and internet technology have rapidly advanced, people worldwide have accumulated vast amounts of data under the influence of authoritarian regimes and monopolistic corporations, following the rules of computer syntax and semantics. This data has been aggregated by AI, resulting in a superintelligence that far exceeds any individual or organisation. Furthermore, as recently stated by Elon Musk, this trend has become unstoppable, and it is even impossible to slow it down. If you still believe that AI is under human control, that is indeed quite laughable.

On the other hand, why do we humans feel the need for these so-called conveniences and functionalities provided by modern technology and AI? What needs do they truly fulfil for humanity? Are these conveniences and satisfactions genuinely essential for us? The year 2025 is poised to be a year of unprecedented upheaval in human history, and this year has already taken things to another level. At this juncture, when it seems there is no turning back, reflecting on these matters may feel a bit late, but perhaps it is still not too late.

Our needs stem from the way technology has reshaped our thinking. Technology enables us to justify its necessity in its own terms, much like how we find our reflection in the mirror particularly appealing. This mirror acts as a distorted filter, a mode of thinking crafted for us by technology. Our thoughts are constrained by language, and the grammar and expression of language have long been supplanted by the logic of computers. The innate way of thinking that characterises human nature has nearly been entirely relinquished by us.

Regardless of their advancements, technology and AI are ultimately subordinate; the non-human forces driving them are the key determinants. Over the years, this dark force has been locked in a struggle with the leftist malevolence of party culture, with neither side able to relinquish its grip or withdraw. This has rendered technology and AI unexpectedly perverse and distorted, featuring terrifying virus-modifying technologies, malevolent life sciences, insidious blood sacrifice rituals, AI surveillance, and the identification of party loyalty, each more sinister than the last. It appears that these two forces are on the verge of taking humanity hostage, leading us all toward a mutually destructive conclusion.

There is a saying: to untie the bell, one must find the bell-ringer. In this situation, the bell-ringer has already sealed their fate; they cannot free themselves, making it impossible to rely on them. Fortunately, if we look up, we can see a clear sky; reclaiming our humanity is the path forward, and returning to tradition can help dispel this self-deceptive fog.

The traditions that have endured for thousands of years were not abandoned due to backwardness or underdevelopment. Traditional culture represents a theoretical and physical structure that transcends multiple times and spaces. To understand and master it, we must utilise our bodies, which serve as instruments of multiple times and spaces, to align with and comprehend it.

The theoretical methods for operating, maintaining, and improving this instrument are encompassed by traditional self-cultivation practices. The three realms we inhabit are simultaneously reflected in our physical bodies. Every traditional civilisation around the world offers techniques for properly aligning with the desire realm, guiding you to clean the unclean and chaotic lower-level waste that lies beyond the visible spectrum and cannot be directly recognised by our cellular nerves. This helps prevent excessive accumulation of waste, which is akin to maintaining a pure heart and few desires. Each traditional civilisation also provides techniques for sustaining the physical body in the form realm, promoting clean thoughts and dignified behaviour, and maintaining a bright and open demeanour, exemplified by qualities such as gentleness, respect, frugality, and accommodation. Additionally, they offer methods to strengthen the formless realm body, emphasising virtues like benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and trust. Those with sufficient insight will undoubtedly gain clarity on these matters. This represents a technology driven by the mind, a clear path that connects the upper and lower realms.

Do not underestimate the complexity and profundity of this multi-dimensional space; such a view reflects a mistaken belief in self-deprecation and self-diminishment. Every structure around us is a self-contained space-time; a tree represents a space-time, a forest constitutes another space-time, and even a drifting cloud or a speck of dust forms a self-contained system of space-time. Both the visible and the invisible realms encompass you and me, as we are already situated within a prosperous world made up of infinite space-time.

Do not underestimate your own potential; by reclaiming tradition, aligning with the correct motivations, and genuinely connecting with the right path, your physical body becomes your seat, your palace, your city, your nation. This is how you can emerge from dire circumstances and reconstruct a new world.

(People News first published) △