Arnaud Bertrand (Substack) 2026-10-21-3
What's left for us after AI? China's thinkers have very different answers
Bertrand argues the Western fear of AI rests on a culturally specific premise that intelligence is what makes us human, as in Homo sapiens. Liu Yongmou inverts it: humanity's biggest problem is the machinization of humans, not the humanization of machines. If coordination work is the first to go, as in Schmidt's flattened firms, the open question is what remains of a person's worth once usefulness is no longer the measure.