Social platforms scatter "AI anxiety"? How to hack

Half Moon Talk Commentator Yan Zhihong

DeepSeek exploded overnight, making artificial intelligence (AI) once again attract social attention. Some institutions under the banner of AI have taken the opportunity to "fish in troubled waters", making ordinary people anxious - will my job be replaced by AI? Do you want to spend money on a training course to learn AI skills? Can you use AI to do a side hustle to increase your income?

From a broader perspective, the rapid spread of AI can improve labor productivity in society. For ordinary people, AI is not a simple replacement, but an update of the form of labor. Therefore, looking at the rise of AI rationally and objectively, and learning the corresponding knowledge and skills according to the actual position of oneself, can solve the "AI anxiety" to a certain extent.

"AI anxiety" diffusing on social platforms

"The eldest baby is in the fifth grade, and the younger baby is in the big class, how do I register for the class?" In the process of "live teaching" in an AI programming tutorial class, a parent asked a question.

"Our fifth-grade baby can learn a little bit of programming to get started, and the little baby in the kindergarten really doesn't need to report, just play with the building block puzzle at home." The anchor replied.

With the popularity of AI tools such as DeepSeek, many parents have become anxious. "There are already parents around me who say that their children have won the ranking of the AI competition, and they also say that this can add points in the college entrance examination in the future, and they will roll us up at once." Ms. Wu, a citizen of Hangzhou, is a parent of a first-year junior high school student, and now as soon as she opens the short video software, she is dizzying with advertisements for AI course tutoring, "Learning AI today is like learning Olympiad mathematics at that time, but now there are more advertising methods, and we are wrapped in such anxiety every day."

對於一些機構而言，AI成為其“自我包裝”的一種行銷手段。在某短視頻平臺上，一位主播正在兜售“99元四天課程”的“AI獲客教程”。在其自述中，有線下餐館依靠其售賣的“AI獲客教程”，一場直播就“賺取了30多萬元的銷售額”。“你現在如果不會AI，想做線下實體根本就玩不轉。”該主播反覆強調“AI獲客”的重要性。

Do you really need to pay to enroll in classes to master AI skills? Banyuetan reporters observed that some teachings that claim to use AI technology to increase store exposure are essentially using AI tools to write short video copywriting or directly generate short videos, and this is only one of the links in store operation. "Judging from the functions that AI can achieve at present, its essence is still a tool, and it cannot replace people's original thinking." According to Wang Peiyu, a senior marketing expert, the publicity effect of AI as a marketing gimmick by some organizations often far exceeds its practical application value.

"Anxiety about following the trend" or "panic about skills"

Government affairs systems and enterprise platforms are connected to the DeepSeek model, and the reporter found that many people on social media are worried that they will be replaced by AI in the future. However, even if the same model is accessed, the requirements of different fields are different, and staff still need to develop more scenarios based on the actual situation of their respective positions.

Taking the government system as an example, AI is currently responsible for policy interpretation, service guidelines, official document generation and other functions, and in the future, AI may be involved in data processing and public opinion analysis in the administrative decision-making process, and people who understand business and AI applications still need to be deeply involved.

In the opinion of experts, AI is also creating new jobs. "Historically, the steam engine replaced the labor of hand-spinning, but at the same time it transformed the craftsman into a new industrial worker, and new jobs such as car drivers and train drivers also appeared." Shen Yang, a professor at Tsinghua University who has long been concerned about the field of AI, believes that AI will indeed eliminate some traditional jobs in the future, and even impact some jobs that require creativity, and new forms of labor and employment opportunities will also emerge. With the rapid increase in social labor productivity with the popularization of AI, people will have more time for themselves in the future on the premise of receiving equal labor remuneration.

The anxiety of ordinary people also stems from their own "skill panic". For ordinary people, it is more meaningful to learn and master AI introductory skills through the existing data on the Internet, and to explore and embed them in combination with actual learning and work scenarios, than to spend money to listen to courses that exaggerate and promote AI empowerment, and overly professional AI training is not much helpful for career development.

"If you don't plan to do AI theory research or engage in AI technology research and development in the future, then there is no need to spend a lot of money to learn AI." Chu Zhaohui, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Education Sciences, believes that interest is the best teacher, and rushing to "frame" children in AI is not a good thing for most children.

The blind use of AI as a substitute for work has the potential to create new security risks. With the AI assistant, some people don't have to "read the literature by themselves" to write papers, but directly "throw" them to the AI to summarize the main points, or "feed" the conference materials to the AI, and directly generate a PPT to hand over the errands. Ren Kui, Dean of the School of Computer Science and Technology of Zhejiang University, reminded that for government and enterprise institutions, it is necessary to establish and improve network security and guardrail mechanisms when deploying AI models to prevent security risks such as output illusions, illegal output, and data leakage. For individuals, it is important not to hand over files containing confidential information to AI to avoid data leakage.

Rational TrainingAI Grounding

In today's rapid development of science and technology, we do not need to be arrogant, but we must embrace change and improve ourselves.

Put technology to work for you while avoiding AI dependency. "All technological breakthroughs in history are at the service of people, and any new technology is to make our life and work more comfortable, not to 'replace us'." Chu Zhaohui believes that it is necessary to use AI technology rationally in work and study, and not to "lose one's core competitiveness" in the dependence on new technologies, and that each individual's original thinking cannot be replaced by any machine, so it is necessary to strengthen one's own ability while understanding and learning AI skills.

Make design arrangements in advance to prevent the AI divide from occurring. Chu Zhaohui and others also proposed that due to the uneven development of various regions, it is necessary to pay attention to the impact of AI on the production and life of people in different regions to avoid the formation of an AI gap. They suggested that relevant departments should carry out AI literacy education for practitioners, the elderly, and residents in rural areas engaged in labor-intensive industries in light of the current actual situation, so that people can understand, be exposed to, and use AI, and prevent the spread of "existential anxiety" caused by information asymmetry.

Pay attention to the security risks derived from AI and formulate relevant plans. Ren Kui suggested that government and enterprise organizations should do a good job of security risk assessment before accessing AI tools, establish a sound identity authentication, access control, vulnerability and risk monitoring and reporting mechanism, and conduct regular training for employees to improve their ability to identify potential security threats.