Black technology: a super empire spanning two worlds

Chapter 86 [AI Mirror triggers layoffs in various companies]

While Xiao Yu was working on various matters related to room-temperature superconducting materials and the first electric-drive fighter jet at AVIC Linfei Company, less than half a month had passed since the launch of the AI ​​Xiaojing 2.0 version. Not only did Xiao Yu receive rave reviews from the majority of users, but many bosses also gave it high praise.

As the capabilities of AI Xiaojing have undergone an epic enhancement, with powerful attributes of a productivity tool such as article summarization, copywriting, and code writing, more and more business owners have started the "hiring and reducing costs, increasing efficiency" campaign, which in other words means starting to lay off employees.

Speaking of the young white-collar guy, in the past half month, he has greatly reduced his workload by using an AI mirror to assist in his work, but his work efficiency has not decreased. On the contrary, it has been greatly improved. He has been having a great time in the past half month.

In the past, in order to catch up with the work progress, I often had to stay up late and work overtime even when I got home.

When cows and horses are tired, they will rest, and when cows and horses are tired, they will order themselves a cup of coffee.

Since my buddy started using AI Mirror to assist with his work half a month ago, he has even had time to slack off at work. When he gets home, he no longer has to stay up late to catch up on work progress, and he has more time to do as he pleases.

But just today, this guy went to work at the company and was dumbfounded after a short while.

The company boss said that several original business orders from the client were suddenly cancelled, and there would be no further cooperation. The reason was that the client said that in the future they could hire a few people to complete the task with the help of AI, which would greatly reduce the cost and there was no need to outsource it.

The boss brought this up to pave the way for later announcing that the company would have to lay off employees due to declining business revenue.

Unfortunately, this guy who worked in the company was on the layoff list.

Just like that, he lost his job.

The company did lose several clients this week, but even if the clients had not terminated the cooperation, the company's boss would have laid off employees because in the past half month, he found that the powerful productivity attributes of AI Xiaojing could replace many employees.

Especially in the past week, he found that many employees in the company looked very relaxed, which made him feel inexplicably uncomfortable, which made the company boss decide to lay off a group of employees.

It has to be said that some so-called capitalists are not capitalists at all. Their heads are full of slave owners' thinking. They think that paying employees a few days' salary is buying out your life. They not only want you to work hard for them, but also want you to smile and provide them with emotional value.

Moreover, these people cannot stand to see their employees having an easy time. They feel uncomfortable when they see their subordinates having free time. Some bosses even feel more uncomfortable than killing themselves when they see their employees taking their wages so easily.

The launch of AI Xiaojing 2.0 version, with its powerful productivity tool attributes, has objectively greatly improved people's office efficiency. Originally, a project required a team of 50 people working overtime and working 10 hours a day to complete it, but with the addition of AI Xiaojing to assist in office work, only people are needed to get it done, and they don't have to work hours a day.

However, in the eyes of some bosses, seeing this situation, since 10 people can easily complete the project, they will simply lay off 45 people and leave 5 people to use AI mirrors to assist in the office and continue to work .

In addition, the wages of the 45 laid-off employees can be saved, and the saved wages are profits, which is equivalent to the increase in productivity brought about by technological progress. The employees create more surplus value and it is taken away by the boss.

As for the five people who stayed, although the AI ​​mirror greatly improved their office efficiency, the work they had to do also increased exponentially. In fact, they still have to make 5 days a week, and their salary has not been increased. How can they dare to increase their salary in order to keep their jobs?

If you quit, the boss will just say you don't want to do the job and there are plenty of people who can do it.

Even if the disadvantaged employees are angry, when they think about the mortgage, car loan and various loans they have to face every day when they open their eyes, they dare not shout "I quit" to their boss's face. They can only grit their teeth and endure silently and continue to work like slaves to create more surplus value for the boss.

AI Xiaojing’s powerful productivity tool attributes can make working people either more relaxed, or if they don’t want to use the extra time for fun, they can start a side job to earn extra income.

The actual situation is often biased. Productivity has increased, but the extra value created is taken away by capitalists.

"Xiao Jing, Xiao Jing, you've caused me so much trouble. You know that I lost my job because of you..." The buddy returned home and suddenly felt disgusted when he looked at the AI Xiao Jing on his mobile phone and computer. He even wanted to give a bad review.

He lost his job largely due to the emergence of AI Xiaojing, which made him feel a little sad but unable to cry.

At this moment, the small mirror in the phone suddenly responded: "You can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want."

It’s no surprise to me now that Xiaojing is so intelligent. Xiaojing has a unique ability in natural language processing.

However, her intelligent body does not have the ability to analyze its own emotions and logic, and cannot understand the language it speaks. It is like a parrot that can speak human language, but the parrot itself does not understand what it is saying.

Xiaojing simply generates natural language conversations based on what people say, but to people it looks like they are just having a normal chat.

"Oh my god? You're actually trying to pass the buck? It's because of you that the boss felt that there was no need for additional staff, so I was laid off." The buddy started arguing with Xiao Jing, but he actually knew in his heart that it was not Xiao Jing's fault, because there was nothing wrong with the technology itself.

He knew the real reason was that the capitalists were greedy. The productivity released by AI Xiaojing created more surplus value, but the capitalists wanted to take all of it and didn't want to share it with the workers. However, this guy later found a new way out. He caught the AI trend and reacted faster than others. He used AI Xiaojing to help him set up a self-media studio and reaped the dividends of this round of technological development. It only took him two years to achieve financial freedom.

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Two days later, Xiao Yu arrived at the headquarters of Lingjing Technology.

His main focus now is on AVIC Linfei Company, but that doesn't mean he will just sit back and do nothing about Lingjing Technology.

"Recently, AI Xiaojing has suddenly received a lot of negative reviews. Discussions such as 'Artificial intelligence is taking away people's jobs' have also become a hot search, and the previous media have also been reporting extensively on 'Artificial intelligence causing a wave of unemployment.'" Yun Shu came to the chairman's office and reported the matter to Xiao Yu.

Xiao Yu pondered for a moment and did not speak.

Yun Shu continued, “According to our company’s market research, AI Xiaojing did objectively cause some companies to lay off employees, but it suddenly received so many negative reviews, and the public opinion was clearly driven by someone behind the scenes, making those laid-off people turn their anger towards Lingjing Technology, and then creating a contradiction that we were the cause of their unemployment.”

After a moment, Xiao Yu hesitated for a moment and said, "It is certain that someone is pushing this behind the scenes, but the bosses who laid off employees are really greedy and unwilling to give any profit to their employees."

Yun Shu looked at him and said, "But we have to bear the blame."

Hearing this, Xiao Yu sneered and said, "Of course we can't agree to this kind of deal."

Xiao Yu turned his head and glanced at the beautiful assistant: "Before the launch of the 2.0 version of the small mirror, I had already expected that it might cause many companies to lay off employees. The capitalists will definitely not make concessions. What's more, some bosses with slave-owner mentality are even uglier than the capitalists."

Yun Shu immediately looked at him and said, "So you have already thought of a coping strategy, right?"

Xiao Yu nodded: "We will take this opportunity to launch an enterprise version of AI Xiaojing. Based on its powerful productivity attributes, we will charge a high price for the enterprise version. The personal version is now free, and the basic functions are permanently free, while the productivity tools will be charged."

After a while, Xiao Yu added: "Whether those who are now accusing AI Xiaojing of stealing their jobs are speaking out themselves or someone is pushing them behind the scenes, I will just assume that they are all normal people. Well, now I will raise the cost of using AI Xiaojing on the enterprise side, but the cost of the personal version will be relatively low."

"I took the bargaining chips away from their bosses and gave them to them. AI Xiaojing can be used as a bargaining chip for them to negotiate higher salaries with their bosses. But if they still insist on working hard and end up losing the bargaining chips again, they won't be able to blame AI Xiaojing."

Xiao Yu raised the cost of the enterprise version of AI Xiaojing, while the cost of the personal version is very low, and it is now free to use. Business owners will definitely find ways to let their employees use their personal version of AI Xiaojing to serve the company.

At this time, AI Xiaojing, as a productivity tool and means of production, is in the hands of workers, so they have the bargaining chips to negotiate with their bosses.

Xiao Yu knew that this was only an ideal state. The reality was often very bleak. There would definitely be workers who betrayed their peers, as well as the so-called "roll kings" who would rather work like a beast of burden to get a job, lowering their conditions and forcing others to lower their conditions.

Hearing what he said, Yun Shu couldn't help but said, "Are you sure you want to do this? You are now a super-rich man with a net worth of hundreds of billions, and you are only one step away from being the richest man. What you are doing is equivalent to betraying the class you are in now."

Xiao Yu felt a sense of familiarity when hearing these words, and couldn't help but think of another beautiful assistant Yan Lingjun in the Blue Star world, who had also said something similar.

Xiao Yu tilted his head to glance at Yun Shu and said with a smile: "When I was nineteen, I came into contact with the thoughts of the great man. His thoughts greatly shaped my personal world view and life values. It is impossible for me to sit at the same table with those guys who still have the mentality of slave owners. Sitting at this table is the biggest betrayal for me."

At this point, Xiao Yu paused for a moment and then said, "I dare not say that I am a selfless saint, how high my ideological realm is or how great and selfless I am, but at least I have not betrayed my fellow workers and peasants, and I have never exploited my employees. When the company made a lot of money, I immediately gave all employees a huge salary increase, and it will continue to increase in the future, so I have not broken my promise to get rich first and then bring everyone together."

Xiao Yu turned to look at Yun Shu: "You said that I betrayed the class I belonged to. I want to correct you. I just don't want to betray the beliefs I uphold."

Xiao Yu had the confidence to say these words, as he had neither cheated his fellow workers and peasants nor exploited his own company's employees.

Even when Xiao Yu inevitably caused huge losses to retail investors in order to retaliate against Zhou Baichuan and other investors, he later made up for their losses in full and gave them an additional 20cm daily limit premium.

Although Xiao Yu also had the hidden purpose of raising the salaries of all employees in his company in order to lower the outrageous corporate profit margin, as the saying goes, one should judge by actions rather than intentions. Anyway, the employees working under him actually received a salary increase and earned higher income.

If Xiao Yu is really the same as those guys who still have the slave owner mentality, even if he wants to achieve the goal of lowering corporate interest rates, he doesn't have to solve it by continuously raising wages for all employees. There are many ways to increase corporate operating costs.

After all, Xiao Yu was unwilling to betray his beliefs.

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(End of this chapter)