It took three decades to write without fear in the unofficial blog of 85% strong anti-worker, anti- promotion, anti- pension and its upgradation to state new pensioners were collaborators with all evil doers while in-service just blaming pension rules 1995, by just remaining mum unlike what the pensioners had done in RBI for decades.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ran-vOqNIOs 70 Million Chinese Are Crying As Jobs Disappear: Programmers, Actors, Translators All Replaced By AI 27 Aug 2026 ✪ A computer science professional shared his frustration on social media, saying he graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Southeast University and a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Edinburgh. After working as a programmer for three years at a foreign company in Nanjing, he was laid off. About half of the company’s programmers were also How this was made Made with AI Sounds or visuals were altered or fully generated. 174 Comments @EricOliver-s8y 18 hours ago if you do your job without thinking, then don't be surprised when you're replaced by an unthinking machine. @Azguella 17 hours ago No work > no money > can't buy anything > producers don't get anything sold > they can't buy anything rinse and repeat this is how economic decline worsens to recession @PutItAway101 17 hours ago AI is technology that kills your business long term. You think you're saving money by firing workers now, but everyone else is firing workers too, and so there are fewer and fewer people who can afford to buy your product. Where is your market when the majority of people are unemployed?
@ernestlemmingway1124 18 hours ago This promises to be good. For the rest of the world, not West Taiwan. If you read tech journals, you'll have seen countless stories about companies replacing people with LLM (it's not AI) only to go back to real people within a year at most because the chatbots actually make things worse. "Botsitting" alone completely negates any savings promised by causing those people left behind to spend more time fixing what the LLM screws up. The tech is still like an amoeba compared to a human when it comes to interpreting sensory data, much less doing anything that involves data outside what it was taught on. The more it's taught outside a narrow scope, the more it suffers digital hallucinations. @postulator890 15 hours ago The craziest thing I've heard in decades is that once all jobs are replaced by AI, everyone will share in the profits gained and only work 1-2 days a week. Yeah...work 16 hours and get 40 hours pay. That's not how human nature works. We are approaching what Art Bell called "The Great Quickening". The number of people on the planet will shrink as our computer overlords suck our vital juices from our bodies. Maybe the Matrix wasn't that goofy after all is said and done. Sarc. off. @AndromedaGlz78 19 hours ago And Chinese say We will run Factories by Automated Robot... But I don't understand for whom Robots will make Product!! Factories workers are Robot People are Jobless So, No money in hand!! Who will buy these Products?? @gibbletronic5139 19 hours ago Computer scientists created their replacement. They did it to other fields, so it's only fitting.
@amadeusamwater 15 hours ago The CCP might change their minds if someone shows them how AI can replace them. Transcript : What I spent 10 years learning is now useless. It's normal for people with lower levels of education to lose their jobs, but even highly educated people like us are now unemployed. 0:1616 secondsI think we're entering a new era where everyone will face unemployment. A computer science professional shared his frustration on social media, saying he 0:2525 secondsgraduated with a bachelor's degree from Southeast University and a master's degree in computer science from the University of Edinburg. After working as 0:3333 secondsa programmer for 3 years at a foreign company in Nanjing, he was laid off. 0:3737 secondsAbout half of the company's programmers were also cut. In February, the company CTO sent an email to all employees 0:4545 secondssaying that the era of traditional programming is over and that everyone would now have to use AI for coding. The company's owner said in an interview 0:5353 secondsthat work that previously took six or seven months could now potentially be completed by one programmer using AI assistance in just one week. As AI can 1:021 minute, 2 secondswork around the clock without complaints or demand for higher pay, companies are naturally rethinking their labor costs. 1:091 minute, 9 secondsAfter being unemployed for one or two months, he began reconsidering the future of programming as a career. In his view, coding may eventually become 1:161 minute, 16 secondslike driving, shifting from a specialized skill into an everyday tool. 1:211 minute, 21 secondsAs AI's ability to generate code improves, the boundary between product managers and programmers will continue to blur. Product managers may use AI to 1:291 minute, 29 secondshandle development directly, while programmers may spend less time writing code and more time on product design and business decisions. In the end, 1:371 minute, 37 secondstraditional programming roles may be replaced by new positions such as AI product engineers. However, he believes that only the traditional division of 1:461 minute, 46 secondslabor will disappear. Software development itself will not. The real concern is that AI is gradually replacing large amounts of repetitive 1:541 minute, 54 secondsintellectual work. For creative people and entrepreneurs, this could become an unprecedented opportunity. But for workers who rely on a single skill to 2:022 minutes, 2 secondsmake a living, it could become a career crisis. What frustrates him most is that the skills he nearly spent 10 years developing are rapidly losing value and 2:112 minutes, 11 secondshe has become one of the first people affected by this crisis. A vlogger who studied English said her situation was even worse. 2:232 minutes, 23 secondsFor people in other industries when they say they're being replaced by AI, I think they're being a little dramatic. 2:292 minutes, 29 secondsMy major is the one that has truly been completely replaced by AI with no chance of making a comeback. I have tested several major large language models on 2:372 minutes, 37 secondsthe market, including Gemini and Chat GPT. The reasoning abilities may differ, but when it comes to foreign language translation, they're all extremely 2:452 minutes, 45 secondsstrong. The translations are fast and high quality. For general online articles or public relations materials, it is basically impossible to find any 2:542 minutes, 54 secondsmajor problems. The wording and sentence structure are very natural and the level of professionalism is high. Even for highly specialized foreign language 3:023 minutes, 2 secondscontent, there is usually no major issues. With minor adjustments, it can be used. The key point is that AI translation is completely free and 3:103 minutes, 10 secondsunlimited. The translation jobs that used to be charged by word count basically have no future anymore. She also said that nearly 300 universities
in China still offer translation programs and many of them are prestigious schools. If these programs do not transform and adopt a new 3:263 minutes, 26 secondsteaching model that integrates with AI, many students in these majors will likely graduate only to face unemployment. Many people believe that 3:343 minutes, 34 secondsuniversity education today, especially humanities programs, is facing major challenges worldwide. She said humanity students also need to reflect and keep 3:423 minutes, 42 secondsup with the times. And her own translation major is an example. 3:463 minutes, 46 secondsRecently, China's already difficult employment situation has faced further pressure from AI related job disruption. 3:523 minutes, 52 secondsOfficial Chinese data showed that in July 2026, the unemployment rate among young people aged 16 to 24, excluding 3:593 minutes, 59 secondsstudents, rose to 17.9%, reaching the highest level in nearly a year. At the same time, about 12.7 million university graduates enter the 4:084 minutes, 8 secondsjob market this year. Reuters, citing estimates from Croup, reported that about 9.6% of jobs in China are at high risk of being replaced by AI. Their 4:174 minutes, 17 secondsanalysis estimates that about 70 million workers could face major disruption with workers in their 20s facing an even higher risk of 13.6%. 4:274 minutes, 27 secondsMarket analysts say that while rising youth unemployment cannot be entirely blamed on AI, a weak property market, sluggish consumption, corporate hiring 4:364 minutes, 36 secondscuts, and a surge in university graduates have also worsened the job market. However, growing evidence shows that AI is becoming a new source of 4:454 minutes, 45 secondsemployment pressure, especially for young workers. The Chinese Communist Party's strong push to promote AI adoption has further intensified the 4:524 minutes, 52 secondschallenges facing young people entering the workplace. Currently, the jobs most vulnerable to automation are often programmers, customer service workers, 5:015 minutes, 1 secondtranslators, administrative staff, data processors, and content creators. many of the standardized repetitive positions 5:085 minutes, 8 secondsthat university graduates commonly rely on. This means younger workers may be more vulnerable to AI disruption than experienced employees. Many experts 5:175 minutes, 17 secondsbelieve these trends could eventually weaken China's economic strength. 5:215 minutes, 21 secondsAccording to the Associated Press, AI has already begun affecting traditional white collar fields in China, including programmers, screenwriters, translators, 5:305 minutes, 30 secondsand short video creators. Tasks that once required multiple workers can now be partly handled by AI. Some industries 5:385 minutes, 38 secondshave already seen job cuts and falling wages, and more employees are worried about being replaced. A blogger introduced a popular AI actress in China 5:465 minutes, 46 secondsthat has recently outperformed human actors. She said, 5:535 minutes, 53 seconds[music] 5:545 minutes, 54 seconds"An actress who does not even exist, gained 400,000 followers in just 30 days after debuting. For a 60-second advertisement, her asking price reached 6:036 minutes, 3 seconds258,000 yen. This price has not only surpassed many real life influencers with millions of followers, but even exceeded some top influencers with tens 6:126 minutes, 12 secondsof millions of followers. How does this AI actress manage to take jobs away from China's entertainment industry?" The blogger said, "Many people once thought 6:206 minutes, 20 secondsAI short dramas were just lowquality PowerPoint animations, but the reality is that AI is reshaping the entertainment industry with overwhelming 6:286 minutes, 28 secondsefficiency. The AI actress named Fatsu not only looks like a real person, but also has her own character profile. She 6:356 minutes, 35 secondsdoes vlogs and hand dance videos on social media and also shares behind-the-scenes footage from film sets. This realistic human-like presence
has shocked many people with some even saying it was the first time they had become fans of an AI. Even more concerning, she does not suffer from 6:516 minutes, 51 secondsscandals, never demands higher fees and can work in 100 different projects at the same time. This type of perfect idol 6:596 minutes, 59 secondshas sent investors and advertisers rushing in. But as AI continues to expand, human actors are facing one of their darkest periods. Award-winning 7:087 minutes, 8 secondsactor Jiao Yo Ting received only about 10 scripts in the first half of this year. In the past, he could calmly accept going 18 months without filming, 7:167 minutes, 16 secondsbut now he feels anxious after just 6 months. The issue is not that he has lost his ability. The industry itself has changed. In the first half of this 7:257 minutes, 25 secondsyear, more than 220,000 AI short dramas were released online. Among the 128,000 new dramas launched in the first 7:327 minutes, 32 secondsquarter, AI generated short dramas accounted for more than 95%. 7:387 minutes, 38 secondsIn other words, for every 100 short dramas released today, fewer than five are made with real actors. The reason AI can take over jobs is simple. It is 7:477 minutes, 47 secondscheaper and faster. A traditional short drama costs 300 to 500,000 yen with a production cycle of 20 to 30 days. An AI 7:557 minutes, 55 secondsshort drama costs only 10 to 20,000 yen and can be completed by 3 to five people in just over 10 days. The cost difference is about 20 times while 8:048 minutes, 4 secondsproduction time is cut in half. Data from market research firm IDC shows that last year the share of Chinese industrial companies using AI models and 8:128 minutes, 12 secondsAI agents surged from 9.6% in 2024 to 47.5%. 8:188 minutes, 18 seconds40-year-old Mr. Fay told the Associated Press that he was recently laid off by a computer company along with 160 8:258 minutes, 25 secondscolleagues. He said his boss had previously believed that AI generated code was almost perfect, but he did not believe it himself until he was recently 8:338 minutes, 33 secondslaid off. Mr. Fay said that in many cases AI can now basically replace the work of mid-level programmers. He 8:418 minutes, 41 secondsbelieves AI's future development could have disastrous consequences and may eventually replace everyone. But for now, he says people have no choice but 8:498 minutes, 49 secondsto use AI like everyone else. An employee at an internet company in Hjo told Reuters that the company first required workers to use AI agents. Tasks 8:588 minutes, 58 secondsthat previously needed several employees could now be completed by one worker with AI assistance. The company then reduced its reliance on outsource 9:059 minutes, 5 secondsworkers and cut back on hiring new university graduates. A part-time translator in Changdu said that compared with a few years ago, translation pay 9:149 minutes, 14 secondshas dropped by more than a half. Most available jobs now involve helping train AI models for translation. Meanwhile, humanoid robots in China have already 9:239 minutes, 23 secondsappeared in post offices sorting packages, though the scale remains limited. Their applications continue to expand. The widespread adoption of 9:309 minutes, 30 secondsdelivery robots could also threaten the livelihoods of millions of food delivery workers in China. A recent report from the International Labor Organization 9:389 minutes, 38 secondsfound that women are more concentrated in industries that are easy to automate, such as electronics assembly. At the same time, women remain under reppresented in the technology sector. 9:489 minutes, 48 secondsAs a result, the adoption of AI may expose women to a higher risk of job losses than men. Of course, AI is also creating new employment opportunities. 9:579 minutes, 57 secondsIn China, hiring for positions such as AI engineers, algorithm engineers, and AI product managers is growing rapidly.
For example, related data shows that demand for AI product managers has increased by about 81% yearonear. 10:1110 minutes, 11 secondsHowever, the problem is that the new AI related jobs do not match the traditional jobs being eliminated. A clerical worker replaced by AI cannot 10:1910 minutes, 19 secondsimmediately become an algorithm engineer, and a graduate who loses a translation job cannot quickly transform into an AI expert. This means AI could create a clear divide in the job market. 10:3010 minutes, 30 secondsA small group of people with technical skills gain more opportunities while large numbers of ordinary white collar workers face falling wages, fewer 10:3810 minutes, 38 secondspositions, and even unemployment. A 2025 youth survey in China found that 48.4% of unemployed young people felt they 10:4610 minutes, 46 secondsfaced AI related unemployment risks higher than the 36.4% among students. 10:5110 minutes, 51 secondsThis shows that AI has already moved from being a corporate technology issue to a real employment concern for young people. Those working in internet 10:5810 minutes, 58 secondscompanies, design, translation, customer service, administration, and content creation are increasingly worried about job security. The biggest long-term 11:0711 minutes, 7 secondsimpact of AI on employment among Chinese youth is the gradual dis of many entry-level positions. Companies that previously needed 10 junior employees 11:1611 minutes, 16 secondsmay now only need three to five workers after adopting AI. As a result, companies are reducing campus recruitment, cutting outsourcing, and 11:2411 minutes, 24 secondsrequiring remaining employees to use AI to improve efficiency. This could create a vicious cycle. A slowing economy leads 11:3111 minutes, 31 secondscompanies to hire fewer workers, while the number of graduates continues to rise. AI further reduces entry-level positions, making competition among 11:3911 minutes, 39 secondsyoung people even fiercer. Industry insiders say the Chinese Communist Party is aggressively promoting AI adoption across industries. It has its AI plus 11:4811 minutes, 48 secondsinitiative and its 2030 goals hoping to compete with the United States. But the problem is that China's economic growth has already slowed significantly. People 11:5711 minutes, 57 secondsworried about unemployment are reluctant to spend, weakening consumer demand. In recent years, China's property market downturn has severely damaged household 12:0612 minutes, 6 secondswealth, and the aggressive push for AI could make the situation even worse. As AI threatens nearly 70 million jobs in China, voices questioning the country's 12:1412 minutes, 14 secondsaggressive AI expansion have also attracted attention. 12:2112 minutes, 21 secondsWell, AI is now living the dream life of every worker. First of all, if you don't pay me, I'm not going to work. Even if you pay me 1 cent less or delay my payment by 1 second, I won't do it. 12:3212 minutes, 32 secondsSecond, if you want me to work, you have to clearly explain your requirements. 12:3612 minutes, 36 secondsOtherwise, I may have to keep revising things over and over, right? And every time I make a revision, I'm going to charge you. I'm not some powerless 12:4412 minutes, 44 secondsworker who lets you ask for endless changes without saying anything. I won't do that. Every single revision comes with a fee. Most importantly, if 12:5312 minutes, 53 secondssomething goes wrong after I make changes, it has nothing to do with me. 12:5712 minutes, 57 secondsThat's your requirement. That's your manager's problem. I'm not taking the blame for it. Oh no. AI is enjoying the life workers always wanted. Now, another 13:0613 minutes, 6 secondsperson online offered an even sharper perspective. She said, 13:1513 minutes, 15 seconds"I'm not joking with you. If development continues at this pace, ordinary people are facing something far more serious than just unemployment." So, today I
want to make a public appeal. Since the beginning of this year, major AI tools have been aggressively advertising everywhere. But have you really thought 13:3113 minutes, 31 secondsabout what ordinary people would become after these AI technologies rapidly enter our lives? Let me give you the simplest and most painful example. 13:3913 minutes, 39 secondsDecades ago, farming relied entirely on oxen. Later, farming became mechanized and oxen were replaced. That's why you 13:4713 minutes, 47 secondsnever see oxen working in the fields anymore. So where did those oxen go? 13:5113 minutes, 51 secondsOnto people's dinner tables, right? She also said, "Some people hold an optimistic vision of artificial intelligence. After AI and robots become 13:5913 minutes, 59 secondswidely adopted, productivity will increase dramatically and humans may only need to work one or two days a week, yet still they'll receive a stable 14:0714 minutes, 7 secondsincome in a society of abundant resources." But she disagrees with this view. She explained that when farm oxen saw tractors appear, they may have 14:1514 minutes, 15 secondsthought they would have finally had an easier life. But what awaited them was not retirement or comfort. After losing their value, they were slaughtered. The 14:2314 minutes, 23 secondsreason was simple. Machines were not created by oxen and the wealth generated by those machines did not belong to oxen. The same question now faces 14:3214 minutes, 32 secondshumanity. Who is funding AI research and development? Who owns the shares in robotic technology? And how will the enormous wealth created by AI be 14:4014 minutes, 40 secondsdistributed? Companies investing large amounts of money into AI are still primarily seeking to reduce costs, improve efficiency, and increase 14:4814 minutes, 48 secondsprofits, not to provide unconditional support for people replaced by technology. Therefore, she believes AI cannot be left entirely to the free 14:5514 minutes, 55 secondsmarket. Current development shows that much of AI is flowing into areas that are easiest to monetize, generating advertising copy for e-commerce, using 15:0315 minutes, 3 secondsalgorithms to increase user engagement, produc producing massive amounts of short video content, and replacing basic jobs such as customer service, 15:1215 minutes, 12 secondscopywriting, design, and software development. Whenever AI can reduce labor costs and quickly generate traffic, it enters rapidly. But in areas 15:2015 minutes, 20 secondswhere AI could truly help society, such as unmanned firefighting, emergency rescue, disaster detection, and high-risisk operations, investment 15:2815 minutes, 28 secondsremains extremely limited. She believes that this is not entirely because the technology is impossible. Rather, these fields often require large investments, 15:3715 minutes, 37 secondstake longer to produce returns, and lack sufficient commercial appeal. In other words, there is little profit to be made. This is the fundamental weakness 15:4415 minutes, 44 secondsof the market system. If capital only pursues short-term profits, technological development may move away from the public interest. AI was 15:5215 minutes, 52 secondsoriginally meant to help people handle dangerous work, reduce labor burdens, and improve quality of life, not simply become a tool for cutting labor costs 16:0016 minutesand extracting user traffic. Therefore, governments need to participate in setting rules. On one hand, they can use public funding and policy support to
accelerate AI adoption in areas such as firefighting, rescue, healthcare, and safety monitoring. On the other hand, they should limit algorithm-driven 16:1716 minutes, 17 secondsmanipulation, low-quality content, and irresponsible commercial use. More AI resources should also be directed towards healthare, education, and public 16:2616 minutes, 26 secondsservices. She said the future of artificial intelligence should not simply be about helping companies earn higher profits, but about allowing 16:3316 minutes, 33 secondsordinary people to fairly share the safety, efficiency, and freedom brought by technological progress. Analysts say that many people are now seeing the 16:4116 minutes, 41 secondsmassive changes brought by AI, which bring both opportunities and serious risks. However, the CCP's government is 16:4816 minutes, 48 secondsclearly unlikely to guide AI in the right direction. It views AI primarily as a tool to achieve its global ambitions. While social, ethical, and 16:5616 minutes, 56 secondslivelihood concerns are not its priorities. But the CCP's AI ambitions are also likely to fail. constrained by a prolonged economic slowdown, China's 17:0517 minutes, 5 secondstechnology sector may produce innovation, but has created relatively few new jobs. While AI can improve productivity in some areas, it is also 17:1317 minutes, 13 secondsseverely disrupting employment and weakening job growth. Unemployment undermines social stability, and that is one of the most dangerous and difficult 17:2117 minutes, 21 secondschallenges facing the Chinese communist leadership today.
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It took three decades to write without fear in the unofficial blog of 85% strong anti-worker, anti- promotion, anti- pension and its upgradation to state new pensioners were collaborators with all evil doers while in-service just blaming pension rules 1995, by just remaining mum unlike what the pensioners had done in RBI for decades.
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70 Million Chinese Are Crying As Jobs Disappear: Programmers, Actors, Translators All Replaced By AI 27 Aug 2026 ✪
A computer science professional shared his frustration on social media, saying he graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Southeast University and a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Edinburgh. After working as a programmer for three years at a foreign company in Nanjing, he was laid off. About half of the company’s programmers were also How this was made Made with AI Sounds or visuals were altered or fully generated. 174 Comments @EricOliver-s8y 18 hours ago if you do your job without thinking, then don't be surprised when you're replaced by an unthinking machine.
@Azguella 17 hours ago No work > no money > can't buy anything > producers don't get anything sold > they can't buy anything rinse and repeat this is how economic decline worsens to recession
@PutItAway101 17 hours ago AI is technology that kills your business long term. You think you're saving money by firing workers now, but everyone else is firing workers too, and so there are fewer and fewer people who can afford to buy your product. Where is your market when the majority of people are unemployed?
@ernestlemmingway1124
18 hours ago
This promises to be good. For the rest of the world, not West Taiwan. If you read tech journals, you'll have seen countless stories about companies replacing people with LLM (it's not AI) only to go back to real people within a year at most because the chatbots actually make things worse. "Botsitting" alone completely negates any savings promised by causing those people left behind to spend more time fixing what the LLM screws up. The tech is still like an amoeba compared to a human when it comes to interpreting sensory data, much less doing anything that involves data outside what it was taught on. The more it's taught outside a narrow scope, the more it suffers digital hallucinations.
@postulator890 15 hours ago The craziest thing I've heard in decades is that once all jobs are replaced by AI, everyone will share in the profits gained and only work 1-2 days a week. Yeah...work 16 hours and get 40 hours pay. That's not how human nature works. We are approaching what Art Bell called "The Great Quickening". The number of people on the planet will shrink as our computer overlords suck our vital juices from our bodies. Maybe the Matrix wasn't that goofy after all is said and done. Sarc. off. @AndromedaGlz78 19 hours ago And Chinese say
We will run Factories by Automated Robot...
But I don't understand for whom Robots will make Product!!
Factories workers are Robot
People are Jobless
So, No money in hand!!
Who will buy these Products?? @gibbletronic5139 19 hours ago Computer scientists created their replacement. They did it to other fields, so it's only fitting.
@amadeusamwater 15 hours ago The CCP might change their minds if someone shows them how AI can replace them. Transcript : What I spent 10 years learning is now useless. It's normal for people with lower levels of education to lose their jobs, but even highly educated people like us are now unemployed.
0:1616 secondsI think we're entering a new era where everyone will face unemployment. A computer science professional shared his frustration on social media, saying he
0:2525 secondsgraduated with a bachelor's degree from Southeast University and a master's degree in computer science from the University of Edinburg. After working as
0:3333 secondsa programmer for 3 years at a foreign company in Nanjing, he was laid off.
0:3737 secondsAbout half of the company's programmers were also cut. In February, the company CTO sent an email to all employees
0:4545 secondssaying that the era of traditional programming is over and that everyone would now have to use AI for coding. The company's owner said in an interview
0:5353 secondsthat work that previously took six or seven months could now potentially be completed by one programmer using AI assistance in just one week. As AI can
1:021 minute, 2 secondswork around the clock without complaints or demand for higher pay, companies are naturally rethinking their labor costs.
1:091 minute, 9 secondsAfter being unemployed for one or two months, he began reconsidering the future of programming as a career. In his view, coding may eventually become
1:161 minute, 16 secondslike driving, shifting from a specialized skill into an everyday tool.
1:211 minute, 21 secondsAs AI's ability to generate code improves, the boundary between product managers and programmers will continue to blur. Product managers may use AI to
1:291 minute, 29 secondshandle development directly, while programmers may spend less time writing code and more time on product design and business decisions. In the end,
1:371 minute, 37 secondstraditional programming roles may be replaced by new positions such as AI product engineers. However, he believes that only the traditional division of
1:461 minute, 46 secondslabor will disappear. Software development itself will not. The real concern is that AI is gradually replacing large amounts of repetitive
1:541 minute, 54 secondsintellectual work. For creative people and entrepreneurs, this could become an unprecedented opportunity. But for workers who rely on a single skill to
2:022 minutes, 2 secondsmake a living, it could become a career crisis. What frustrates him most is that the skills he nearly spent 10 years developing are rapidly losing value and
2:112 minutes, 11 secondshe has become one of the first people affected by this crisis. A vlogger who studied English said her situation was even worse.
2:232 minutes, 23 secondsFor people in other industries when they say they're being replaced by AI, I think they're being a little dramatic.
2:292 minutes, 29 secondsMy major is the one that has truly been completely replaced by AI with no chance of making a comeback. I have tested several major large language models on
2:372 minutes, 37 secondsthe market, including Gemini and Chat GPT. The reasoning abilities may differ, but when it comes to foreign language translation, they're all extremely
2:452 minutes, 45 secondsstrong. The translations are fast and high quality. For general online articles or public relations materials, it is basically impossible to find any
2:542 minutes, 54 secondsmajor problems. The wording and sentence structure are very natural and the level of professionalism is high. Even for highly specialized foreign language
3:023 minutes, 2 secondscontent, there is usually no major issues. With minor adjustments, it can be used. The key point is that AI translation is completely free and
3:103 minutes, 10 secondsunlimited. The translation jobs that used to be charged by word count basically have no future anymore. She also said that nearly 300 universities
in China still offer translation programs and many of them are prestigious schools. If these programs do not transform and adopt a new
3:263 minutes, 26 secondsteaching model that integrates with AI, many students in these majors will likely graduate only to face unemployment. Many people believe that
3:343 minutes, 34 secondsuniversity education today, especially humanities programs, is facing major challenges worldwide. She said humanity students also need to reflect and keep
3:423 minutes, 42 secondsup with the times. And her own translation major is an example.
3:463 minutes, 46 secondsRecently, China's already difficult employment situation has faced further pressure from AI related job disruption.
3:523 minutes, 52 secondsOfficial Chinese data showed that in July 2026, the unemployment rate among young people aged 16 to 24, excluding
3:593 minutes, 59 secondsstudents, rose to 17.9%, reaching the highest level in nearly a year. At the same time, about 12.7 million university graduates enter the
4:084 minutes, 8 secondsjob market this year. Reuters, citing estimates from Croup, reported that about 9.6% of jobs in China are at high risk of being replaced by AI. Their
4:174 minutes, 17 secondsanalysis estimates that about 70 million workers could face major disruption with workers in their 20s facing an even higher risk of 13.6%.
4:274 minutes, 27 secondsMarket analysts say that while rising youth unemployment cannot be entirely blamed on AI, a weak property market, sluggish consumption, corporate hiring
4:364 minutes, 36 secondscuts, and a surge in university graduates have also worsened the job market. However, growing evidence shows that AI is becoming a new source of
4:454 minutes, 45 secondsemployment pressure, especially for young workers. The Chinese Communist Party's strong push to promote AI adoption has further intensified the
4:524 minutes, 52 secondschallenges facing young people entering the workplace. Currently, the jobs most vulnerable to automation are often programmers, customer service workers,
5:015 minutes, 1 secondtranslators, administrative staff, data processors, and content creators. many of the standardized repetitive positions
5:085 minutes, 8 secondsthat university graduates commonly rely on. This means younger workers may be more vulnerable to AI disruption than experienced employees. Many experts
5:175 minutes, 17 secondsbelieve these trends could eventually weaken China's economic strength.
5:215 minutes, 21 secondsAccording to the Associated Press, AI has already begun affecting traditional white collar fields in China, including programmers, screenwriters, translators,
5:305 minutes, 30 secondsand short video creators. Tasks that once required multiple workers can now be partly handled by AI. Some industries
5:385 minutes, 38 secondshave already seen job cuts and falling wages, and more employees are worried about being replaced. A blogger introduced a popular AI actress in China
5:465 minutes, 46 secondsthat has recently outperformed human actors. She said,
5:535 minutes, 53 seconds[music]
5:545 minutes, 54 seconds"An actress who does not even exist, gained 400,000 followers in just 30 days after debuting. For a 60-second advertisement, her asking price reached
6:036 minutes, 3 seconds258,000 yen. This price has not only surpassed many real life influencers with millions of followers, but even exceeded some top influencers with tens
6:126 minutes, 12 secondsof millions of followers. How does this AI actress manage to take jobs away from China's entertainment industry?" The blogger said, "Many people once thought
6:206 minutes, 20 secondsAI short dramas were just lowquality PowerPoint animations, but the reality is that AI is reshaping the entertainment industry with overwhelming
6:286 minutes, 28 secondsefficiency. The AI actress named Fatsu not only looks like a real person, but also has her own character profile. She
6:356 minutes, 35 secondsdoes vlogs and hand dance videos on social media and also shares behind-the-scenes footage from film sets. This realistic human-like presence
has shocked many people with some even saying it was the first time they had become fans of an AI. Even more concerning, she does not suffer from
6:516 minutes, 51 secondsscandals, never demands higher fees and can work in 100 different projects at the same time. This type of perfect idol
6:596 minutes, 59 secondshas sent investors and advertisers rushing in. But as AI continues to expand, human actors are facing one of their darkest periods. Award-winning
7:087 minutes, 8 secondsactor Jiao Yo Ting received only about 10 scripts in the first half of this year. In the past, he could calmly accept going 18 months without filming,
7:167 minutes, 16 secondsbut now he feels anxious after just 6 months. The issue is not that he has lost his ability. The industry itself has changed. In the first half of this
7:257 minutes, 25 secondsyear, more than 220,000 AI short dramas were released online. Among the 128,000 new dramas launched in the first
7:327 minutes, 32 secondsquarter, AI generated short dramas accounted for more than 95%.
7:387 minutes, 38 secondsIn other words, for every 100 short dramas released today, fewer than five are made with real actors. The reason AI can take over jobs is simple. It is
7:477 minutes, 47 secondscheaper and faster. A traditional short drama costs 300 to 500,000 yen with a production cycle of 20 to 30 days. An AI
7:557 minutes, 55 secondsshort drama costs only 10 to 20,000 yen and can be completed by 3 to five people in just over 10 days. The cost difference is about 20 times while
8:048 minutes, 4 secondsproduction time is cut in half. Data from market research firm IDC shows that last year the share of Chinese industrial companies using AI models and
8:128 minutes, 12 secondsAI agents surged from 9.6% in 2024 to 47.5%.
8:188 minutes, 18 seconds40-year-old Mr. Fay told the Associated Press that he was recently laid off by a computer company along with 160
8:258 minutes, 25 secondscolleagues. He said his boss had previously believed that AI generated code was almost perfect, but he did not believe it himself until he was recently
8:338 minutes, 33 secondslaid off. Mr. Fay said that in many cases AI can now basically replace the work of mid-level programmers. He
8:418 minutes, 41 secondsbelieves AI's future development could have disastrous consequences and may eventually replace everyone. But for now, he says people have no choice but
8:498 minutes, 49 secondsto use AI like everyone else. An employee at an internet company in Hjo told Reuters that the company first required workers to use AI agents. Tasks
8:588 minutes, 58 secondsthat previously needed several employees could now be completed by one worker with AI assistance. The company then reduced its reliance on outsource
9:059 minutes, 5 secondsworkers and cut back on hiring new university graduates. A part-time translator in Changdu said that compared with a few years ago, translation pay
9:149 minutes, 14 secondshas dropped by more than a half. Most available jobs now involve helping train AI models for translation. Meanwhile, humanoid robots in China have already
9:239 minutes, 23 secondsappeared in post offices sorting packages, though the scale remains limited. Their applications continue to expand. The widespread adoption of
9:309 minutes, 30 secondsdelivery robots could also threaten the livelihoods of millions of food delivery workers in China. A recent report from the International Labor Organization
9:389 minutes, 38 secondsfound that women are more concentrated in industries that are easy to automate, such as electronics assembly. At the same time, women remain under reppresented in the technology sector.
9:489 minutes, 48 secondsAs a result, the adoption of AI may expose women to a higher risk of job losses than men. Of course, AI is also creating new employment opportunities.
9:579 minutes, 57 secondsIn China, hiring for positions such as AI engineers, algorithm engineers, and AI product managers is growing rapidly.
For example, related data shows that demand for AI product managers has increased by about 81% yearonear.
10:1110 minutes, 11 secondsHowever, the problem is that the new AI related jobs do not match the traditional jobs being eliminated. A clerical worker replaced by AI cannot
10:1910 minutes, 19 secondsimmediately become an algorithm engineer, and a graduate who loses a translation job cannot quickly transform into an AI expert. This means AI could create a clear divide in the job market.
10:3010 minutes, 30 secondsA small group of people with technical skills gain more opportunities while large numbers of ordinary white collar workers face falling wages, fewer
10:3810 minutes, 38 secondspositions, and even unemployment. A 2025 youth survey in China found that 48.4% of unemployed young people felt they
10:4610 minutes, 46 secondsfaced AI related unemployment risks higher than the 36.4% among students.
10:5110 minutes, 51 secondsThis shows that AI has already moved from being a corporate technology issue to a real employment concern for young people. Those working in internet
10:5810 minutes, 58 secondscompanies, design, translation, customer service, administration, and content creation are increasingly worried about job security. The biggest long-term
11:0711 minutes, 7 secondsimpact of AI on employment among Chinese youth is the gradual dis of many entry-level positions. Companies that previously needed 10 junior employees
11:1611 minutes, 16 secondsmay now only need three to five workers after adopting AI. As a result, companies are reducing campus recruitment, cutting outsourcing, and
11:2411 minutes, 24 secondsrequiring remaining employees to use AI to improve efficiency. This could create a vicious cycle. A slowing economy leads
11:3111 minutes, 31 secondscompanies to hire fewer workers, while the number of graduates continues to rise. AI further reduces entry-level positions, making competition among
11:3911 minutes, 39 secondsyoung people even fiercer. Industry insiders say the Chinese Communist Party is aggressively promoting AI adoption across industries. It has its AI plus
11:4811 minutes, 48 secondsinitiative and its 2030 goals hoping to compete with the United States. But the problem is that China's economic growth has already slowed significantly. People
11:5711 minutes, 57 secondsworried about unemployment are reluctant to spend, weakening consumer demand. In recent years, China's property market downturn has severely damaged household
12:0612 minutes, 6 secondswealth, and the aggressive push for AI could make the situation even worse. As AI threatens nearly 70 million jobs in China, voices questioning the country's
12:1412 minutes, 14 secondsaggressive AI expansion have also attracted attention.
12:2112 minutes, 21 secondsWell, AI is now living the dream life of every worker. First of all, if you don't pay me, I'm not going to work. Even if you pay me 1 cent less or delay my payment by 1 second, I won't do it.
12:3212 minutes, 32 secondsSecond, if you want me to work, you have to clearly explain your requirements.
12:3612 minutes, 36 secondsOtherwise, I may have to keep revising things over and over, right? And every time I make a revision, I'm going to charge you. I'm not some powerless
12:4412 minutes, 44 secondsworker who lets you ask for endless changes without saying anything. I won't do that. Every single revision comes with a fee. Most importantly, if
12:5312 minutes, 53 secondssomething goes wrong after I make changes, it has nothing to do with me.
12:5712 minutes, 57 secondsThat's your requirement. That's your manager's problem. I'm not taking the blame for it. Oh no. AI is enjoying the life workers always wanted. Now, another
13:0613 minutes, 6 secondsperson online offered an even sharper perspective. She said,
13:1513 minutes, 15 seconds"I'm not joking with you. If development continues at this pace, ordinary people are facing something far more serious than just unemployment." So, today I
want to make a public appeal. Since the beginning of this year, major AI tools have been aggressively advertising everywhere. But have you really thought
13:3113 minutes, 31 secondsabout what ordinary people would become after these AI technologies rapidly enter our lives? Let me give you the simplest and most painful example.
13:3913 minutes, 39 secondsDecades ago, farming relied entirely on oxen. Later, farming became mechanized and oxen were replaced. That's why you
13:4713 minutes, 47 secondsnever see oxen working in the fields anymore. So where did those oxen go?
13:5113 minutes, 51 secondsOnto people's dinner tables, right? She also said, "Some people hold an optimistic vision of artificial intelligence. After AI and robots become
13:5913 minutes, 59 secondswidely adopted, productivity will increase dramatically and humans may only need to work one or two days a week, yet still they'll receive a stable
14:0714 minutes, 7 secondsincome in a society of abundant resources." But she disagrees with this view. She explained that when farm oxen saw tractors appear, they may have
14:1514 minutes, 15 secondsthought they would have finally had an easier life. But what awaited them was not retirement or comfort. After losing their value, they were slaughtered. The
14:2314 minutes, 23 secondsreason was simple. Machines were not created by oxen and the wealth generated by those machines did not belong to oxen. The same question now faces
14:3214 minutes, 32 secondshumanity. Who is funding AI research and development? Who owns the shares in robotic technology? And how will the enormous wealth created by AI be
14:4014 minutes, 40 secondsdistributed? Companies investing large amounts of money into AI are still primarily seeking to reduce costs, improve efficiency, and increase
14:4814 minutes, 48 secondsprofits, not to provide unconditional support for people replaced by technology. Therefore, she believes AI cannot be left entirely to the free
14:5514 minutes, 55 secondsmarket. Current development shows that much of AI is flowing into areas that are easiest to monetize, generating advertising copy for e-commerce, using
15:0315 minutes, 3 secondsalgorithms to increase user engagement, produc producing massive amounts of short video content, and replacing basic jobs such as customer service,
15:1215 minutes, 12 secondscopywriting, design, and software development. Whenever AI can reduce labor costs and quickly generate traffic, it enters rapidly. But in areas
15:2015 minutes, 20 secondswhere AI could truly help society, such as unmanned firefighting, emergency rescue, disaster detection, and high-risisk operations, investment
15:2815 minutes, 28 secondsremains extremely limited. She believes that this is not entirely because the technology is impossible. Rather, these fields often require large investments,
15:3715 minutes, 37 secondstake longer to produce returns, and lack sufficient commercial appeal. In other words, there is little profit to be made. This is the fundamental weakness
15:4415 minutes, 44 secondsof the market system. If capital only pursues short-term profits, technological development may move away from the public interest. AI was
15:5215 minutes, 52 secondsoriginally meant to help people handle dangerous work, reduce labor burdens, and improve quality of life, not simply become a tool for cutting labor costs
16:0016 minutesand extracting user traffic. Therefore, governments need to participate in setting rules. On one hand, they can use public funding and policy support to
accelerate AI adoption in areas such as firefighting, rescue, healthcare, and safety monitoring. On the other hand, they should limit algorithm-driven
16:1716 minutes, 17 secondsmanipulation, low-quality content, and irresponsible commercial use. More AI resources should also be directed towards healthare, education, and public
16:2616 minutes, 26 secondsservices. She said the future of artificial intelligence should not simply be about helping companies earn higher profits, but about allowing
16:3316 minutes, 33 secondsordinary people to fairly share the safety, efficiency, and freedom brought by technological progress. Analysts say that many people are now seeing the
16:4116 minutes, 41 secondsmassive changes brought by AI, which bring both opportunities and serious risks. However, the CCP's government is
16:4816 minutes, 48 secondsclearly unlikely to guide AI in the right direction. It views AI primarily as a tool to achieve its global ambitions. While social, ethical, and
16:5616 minutes, 56 secondslivelihood concerns are not its priorities. But the CCP's AI ambitions are also likely to fail. constrained by a prolonged economic slowdown, China's
17:0517 minutes, 5 secondstechnology sector may produce innovation, but has created relatively few new jobs. While AI can improve productivity in some areas, it is also
17:1317 minutes, 13 secondsseverely disrupting employment and weakening job growth. Unemployment undermines social stability, and that is one of the most dangerous and difficult
17:2117 minutes, 21 secondschallenges facing the Chinese communist leadership today.
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