I am the only one who practices magic: I practice magic in the city

Chapter 357: Was the house robbed? (4113)

"Now you haven't told me what that lost civilization is, so I don't know what kind of changes you have undergone."

Fang Daqiang's face rarely showed worry.

"Son, I have never denied your ideas because of my age and experience."

"But you must consider carefully whether the dangers of super artificial intelligence are something that humans can handle now."

Fang Yu comforted his father: "Don't worry, Dad, even if ASI is born, it will not destroy humanity."

"Of course, I'm talking about the ASI I created. In that 'lost civilization', there is a way to fully control the safety of the ASI."

Fang Daqiang shook his head: "No, I'm not just talking about the danger of the Terminator. Even if you can completely guarantee the safety of ASI, can you control the collapse of human society caused by the impact of AI?"

“That’s actually what I’m really worried about.”

"The current social structure of human society is a relatively stable social structure formed through thousands of years of continuous evolution."

“Every technological advancement and leap in human history has caused great upheaval in the social structure.”

"More than 200 years ago, Watt invented the steam engine and the first industrial revolution began. The whole process lasted for 100 years, and in the following 30 years, more than 80% of the world's political regimes changed."

"More than a hundred years ago, during the Second Industrial Revolution, electricity began to enter industrial production on a large scale. The S2 season that opened a few decades later almost destroyed human civilization."

"In the Internet era, which has been called the third industrial revolution in recent years, the social structure of the world has once again become precarious."

"You can see that the speed of technology adoption is getting faster and faster, and the turmoil it causes is also getting bigger and bigger."

"This is because the first industrial revolution took at least a hundred years to adjust the social structure, and the second took 40 to 50 years, but the third one seems to have taken less than 20 years."

“In this context, AI was born.”

“AI poses a far greater threat to the social structure than any other technological revolution. It is the first tool created by humans that can truly reach or even exceed human capabilities. It is a tool that can completely replace humans rather than assisting them in their work.”

"The current capabilities of the Orange model alone are enough to replace 70 percent of the current middle class, but it has not yet been truly popularized and penetrated into all walks of life."

“But I think you also know that ASI may replace 90% of human work in just a few years after its birth.”

"Do you think that human society today is really ready for this?"

"The world's working population exceeds 4.5 billion. By then, more than 4 billion people may be unemployed. What should we do then? Use ASI to kill them all?"

"Have you considered these issues? Son, this is no ordinary responsibility. I don't want you to live with regret for the rest of your life."

Fang Yu had never seen Fang Daqiang have such a serious and earnest expression when talking to him.

From childhood to adulthood, Fang Daqiang actually only beat him a few times. The worst time was when he and Wang Mingxuan skipped school in elementary school to go to Shuiyue Creek to catch wheatear fish.

Even that time, the expression on Fang Daqiang's face was not so serious.

Fang Yu and Musk had similar conversations before, but Musk and Fang Daqiang had different focuses.

Musk is not concerned about whether ordinary people will lose their jobs or whether the human social structure will collapse. He is only concerned about whether ASI will evolve autonomous consciousness and whether it will completely eliminate humans in order to evolve itself.

Fang Daqiang is concerned about whether the human social structure can continue to exist in this unprecedented great change, and whether it will cause "tragedy for the majority."

This is actually a question of two categories.

Fang Daqiang was serious, so Fang Yu also became serious, restrained his smile and straightened his body.

"Dad, I understand what you mean. I have thought of some solutions on how to reduce the impact of AI on human social structure and even make AI a better world for human beings. I have also used the tool of 'Lost Civilization' to verify the effectiveness of these solutions."

"But I still need to clarify with you, Dad. Even if I don't have these plans, I will not blame myself too much for the impact of AI on human social institutions, thinking that it is entirely my responsibility."

Fang Yu's answer once again surprised Fang Daqiang.

"Just like what you said, Dad, the birth of AI will have a huge impact on the social structure of the entire human world. If we can stop it, of course, stopping is the safest option."

"But driven by capital and competition, the speed of popularization and development of new technologies will not stop because of human worries and fears. Instead, they will get faster and faster."

"Compared to a technological revolution, AI is actually more like a nuclear weapon. Seventy years ago, the United Kingdom of Mai developed its first atomic bomb four years later, and the United Kingdom of Bulgaria developed its own nuclear weapons seven years later, and Gaul 4 years later. Even under such difficult circumstances at the time, the Great Zhou Dynasty successfully detonated its first atomic bomb in just over a decade."

"In this 'if you don't have it, you die' arms race, it's impossible for anyone to agree to be left behind."

"All each side can do is have more weapons and more powerful weapons than the others."

"And this time, the entities participating in the competition are not just the state, but also many companies."

"This arms race will not stop until one side has a complete and overwhelming advantage."

“Only after defeating all competitors will it be meaningful to discuss how to address the impact of AI on the human social structure.”

“I’m not shirking responsibility, but judging by the progress of AI research by Google and other companies, even without Yuzu Technology, an AI model with AGI potential will appear within five years.”

"The AI ​​that appeared at that time did not have safety measures like the Orange model, and posed a greater threat to human society."

"Besides, do you think that human society will be ready by then? No, it won't be. Judging from the future development of the international situation, the preparations may be even worse than they are now."

"I am a human being and I will take on the responsibilities that a human being should take on. But if it is not my responsibility, I will never force myself to take it on."

Hearing this, Fang Daqiang couldn't help but look surprised.

He never expected that the little kid who followed him around with a grin a few years ago would now have such an understanding of things.

This is not to say that he doesn't understand Fang Yu, but it is a natural reaction of a parent when faced with a certain "maturity" that his child has rarely shown before.

He was not surprised by Fang Yu's analysis and judgment of AI, but was surprised by Fang Yu's understanding of "responsibility".

Being brave enough to take responsibility is not true maturity. Being able to distinguish what you should take responsibility for and what you should not is true maturity.

My son has really grown up. Fang Yu was unaware and continued, "Of course, there are no ifs in reality. Since I have opened the AI ​​era, I do have the responsibility to come up with a feasible plan to make the world a better place."

"Dad, you just asked me why I wanted to conflict with BlackRock. In fact, this is exactly the answer to your question."

"If we want to minimize the impact of AI on the human social structure, we must first get rid of BlackRock! This is a prerequisite for the entire plan!"

Fang Daqiang was stunned for a moment. Must he get rid of Blackrock first?
What's the point?
Fang Daqiang unconsciously lit a cigarette: "Why do you say that?"

Compared to AI, which is a new thing that he has only been exposed to for a few months, he has been dealing with BlackRock for six years.

At that time, BlackRock was not as big as it is now. It was taking advantage of the financial crisis to greedily swallow up Wall Street assets, while at the same time being adept at manipulating the market. At that time, Wanfang was seeking to be listed on the H-share market, and it was necessary to contact institutional investors like BlackRock.

Although he didn't have any good feelings towards BlackRock, he didn't have any bad feelings towards it either, and he didn't quite understand why Fang Yu was so targeting BlackRock.

“BlackRock currently manages $7 billion in assets and continues to grow.”

Fang Yu paused for a moment to organize his thoughts and then continued:

"I used the Orange Big Model to simulate and estimated that within five years, their managed assets will exceed 10 trillion dollars."

"If Yuzu Technology hadn't emerged, it's highly likely that Google or Facebook would have dominated the AI ​​process in the future. Even if it wasn't them, they would have had a deep relationship with them."

"And the financial groups headed by BlackRock are the ones that have been providing them with 'military rations' for a long time."

"Currently, BlackRock holds more than 6% of Google's shares through ETFs and other funds, and more than 5% of Facebook's shares, making it one of the two largest shareholders."

“And the number of institutions that use the BlackRock Aladdin system to invest using a follow-up strategy is several times greater than BlackRock’s holdings.”

“BlackRock is a bellwether for a large number of institutions.”

"Now the Jude Group in Miami is like a frightened bird. If we can get rid of BlackRock at this time, the deterrent power of Jude Financial Group on all walks of life in Miami will be greatly reduced. More people will no longer publicly express their opinions on them for fear of retaliation, which will make the social trend increasingly unfavorable to them."

"At this point, they will inevitably flee from Miami in a panic. Companies like Google and Facebook will be drained of their resources and will no longer be able to conduct similar research."

Fang Daqiang interrupted Fang Yu: "What you said does not really explain why getting rid of BlackRock can protect the human social structure from the impact of AI."

“Even if Google and Facebook go bankrupt because of BlackRock’s collapse, the door to artificial intelligence has been opened. After the emergence of ASI, it will also cause the structural collapse of human society.”

"The only difference is whether the evil consequences are caused by you or by them."

Fang Yu shook his head: "That's not the case, Dad. My subsequent plan requires at least three prerequisites to be met:"

“First, in the short to medium term, there will be no ASI that can compete with Yuzu Technology’s ASI.”

"From the current point of view, this should have been achieved. Even if an extremely genius new neural network architecture appears, the Orange model can quickly adjust and integrate it into its own network. I am not very worried about this."

"It would be even safer if we could get rid of BlackRock and prevent them from providing 'military support' to these companies in the short term."

"The second point is a relatively stable domestic and international business environment."

“Only a stable domestic and international business environment can allow Yuzu Technology’s ASI to quickly occupy the global market and avoid unpredictable administrative interference.”

"In my subsequent plan, the faster Yuzu Technology's ASI occupies the world market, the less impact the social structure will have, and the less impact the lives of most people will have."

“BlackRock’s lobbying power is a huge obstacle to this.”

"The third point is wealth, a lot of material wealth."

“Material wealth does not appear out of thin air, and it certainly does not disappear out of thin air.”

“After the collapse of the financial capital group headed by BlackRock, the assets they manage can provide sufficient liquidity to the market, allowing Youzi Technology to obtain enough wealth to complete subsequent plans.”

Fang Yu smiled and said, "Of course, apart from these three points, you know, I am not very interested in BlackRock's ESG."

"The documents I obtained from BlackRock earlier also proved that they had no good intentions in promoting this thing."

"To be honest, I was the one who got rid of Cao Wei, who was in charge of ESG construction at Wanfang a few days ago."

That’s right, Wanfang was also working on ESG in the past few months.

There is no way. In the automatic stock selection strategies of some investment institutions, ESG reports and DEI scores are one of the built-in weights.

If you don't do this, institutional investors are unlikely to choose your stocks. Without institutional investors, the stock price will not be effectively supported. Under this chain reaction, these listed companies can only build ESG.

To this end, two months ago, Wanfang specially poached an ESG executive from Siemens to serve as Wanfang's vice president, specifically to build Wanfang's ESG system.

Fang Yu was stunned when he found out about this a few days ago. He was still complaining about BlackRock. But when he turned around, what the hell? Was his house robbed?

But it’s not Fang Daqiang’s fault. It’s true that almost all large companies are now working on or preparing to work on ESG.

Although there were some negative information about ESG in the documents leaked in the previous BlackRock Newport office incident, these negative information did not arouse enough vigilance among the public due to BlackRock's strong public relations.

After all, I haven't suffered any loss yet.

But if current public opinion continues, a split is inevitable sooner or later.

Fang Yu was just bored and took a look at Wanfang's first quarter investor report. He saw the ESG report and DEI scoring content and realized that his family had been robbed.

It is tolerable and unbearable.

So, Fang Yu didn't look for Fang Daqiang, but directly used some tricks to get rid of Cao Wei, who was engaged in ESG construction.

Anyway, Wanfang’s performance is very good now and it doesn’t need any damn ESG rating at all. There is still no shortage of investors in the secondary market.

Fang Daqiang nodded, finally understanding why Fang Yu was so against BlackRock.

"I understand all this. What is the follow-up plan you just mentioned?"

(End of this chapter)