MAROKO133 Eksklusif ai: Chinese Workers Horrified as Bosses Direct Them to Train Their AI

📌 MAROKO133 Update ai: Chinese Workers Horrified as Bosses Direct Them to Train Th

For years, a buzzy Silicon Valley startup called Mercor has been hiring an army of desperate job-seekers — often including educated and underemployed experts — to train AI models to replace them in the workforce.

It’s a grim facet of an AI-dominated future in which the business world continues to push for automation, hoping to wean itself off relying on pesky and expensive human labor once and for all.

As MIT Tech Review reports, an eerily similar situation is now playing out in China. Workers told the publication that their bosses are directing them to painstakingly document their workflows with the eventual goal of automating specific tasks using AI agents, such as OpenClaw, an open-source piece of software that has become immensely popular in the country.

Chinese employees already got an early glimpse of what an AI agent-led future could look like. A GitHub project called Colleague Skill, which was originally set up as a joke, went viral on Chinese social media. It works by ingesting the chat history and profile details of a specific coworker, then automatically spitting out workplace manuals that describe their tasks in stunning detail.

Purportedly AI-related layoffs roiling the tech industry reportedly inspired the tool’s creator, Tianyi Zhou. But while it was meant to poke fun at the trend, the tool also sparked a fierce debate over the future of human agency — and dignity.

“It is surprisingly good,” Shanghai-based tech worker Amber Li told MIT Tech of the software. “It even captures the person’s little quirks, like how they react and their punctuation habits.”

It’s a pertinent topic in the country considering the recent frenzy surrounding OpenClaw. The spread of countless agents grew so quickly this year that government agencies and state-owned enterprises started warning their staff not to install the software on their devices, citing cybersecurity risks including leaks and the mistaken deletion of data.

While businesses are incentivized to continue pushing for automation, streamlining workflows, and standardizing systems, employees are unsurprisingly far less receptive.

Some have even started to build tools to sabotage the creation of AI agents to replace human workers, according to MIT Tech.

“I originally wanted to write an op-ed, but decided it would be more useful to make something that pushes back against it,” AI product manager Koki Xu, who created a tool that rewrites worker manuals into non-actionable language, told the outlet.

While researchers continue to debate how effective AI agents will be in actually replacing human workers wholesale, employees are pushing to be part of the discussion, regardless.

“I believe it’s important to keep up with these trends so we (employees) can participate in shaping how they are used,” Xu added.

More on automation: Companies Just Learned a Brutal Lesson About Training AI to Do Human Jobs

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🔗 Sumber: futurism.com

📌 MAROKO133 Hot ai: In a first, Ukraine destroys Russia’s Shahed drone using sea-b

Ukraine has carried out what its military describes as the first recorded interception of an aerial threat using an interceptor drone launched from an unmanned surface vessel — a milestone that extends the country’s drone warfare playbook from the sea surface into the air above it.

According to Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces, operators from the USV division of the 412th Nemesis Brigade successfully engaged and destroyed a Russian Shahed loitering munition on April 19 in a maritime operational zone.

The interceptor drone was deployed directly from a naval unmanned surface vessel (USV) and destroyed the incoming Shahed before it reached its intended target.

The Unmanned Systems Forces described the operation as the first instance in modern warfare of an aerial threat being intercepted by a drone launched from a sea-based unmanned platform.

Released footage of the engagement is technically revealing. The interceptor lifts off vertically from an open compartment on the naval vessel’s deck — no ejection system, no catapult.

The vertical takeoff signature makes clear this was a multirotor drone, not a fixed-wing or missile-type system. The interceptor then proceeds toward the incoming Shahed and completes an in-flight interception.

That detail matters. It signals a deliberate shift away from encapsulated, missile-like counter-drone solutions toward more flexible, real-time piloted FPV systems that can be carried, deployed, and guided on the fly without specialized launch infrastructure.

The target: Shahed-136/Geran-2

The Shahed-136, which Russia fields under the designation Geran-2, remains the backbone of Moscow’s mass drone campaign against Ukraine.

The delta-wing loitering munition carries a warhead estimated between 66 and 110 pounds (30–50 kg), can cover close to 1,243 miles (2,000 km) depending on its flight profile, and flies at low altitude on GPS-based navigation — often slipping beneath radar coverage.

The two likely interceptors

Two Ukrainian-developed systems emerge as credible interceptor drones for this kind of mission.

The Sting II, developed by Ukraine’s Wild Hornets group, is a quadcopter designed specifically to intercept hostile UAVs. It uses FPV piloting combined with a thermal camera for night operations, with an engagement range of approximately 12 to 16 miles (20–25 km) depending on conditions.

It can destroy targets through direct impact or proximity detonation. Its simple design and low unit cost support the kind of large-scale production Ukraine needs to sustain volume interception operations.

The Skyfall P1-Sun is another credible option. Also built around rapid, low-cost production principles, this FPV interceptor costs approximately $1,000 per unit — enabling its use in volume against Shahed-class targets.

While less documented in confirmed operational intercepts than the Sting, it follows identical logic: real-time human guidance, short-range engagement, and scalable manufacturing.

Both systems represent what Ukrainian defense developers call the “intermediate option” — cheaper than surface-to-air missiles, more responsive than electronic jamming, and now extendable onto maritime launch platforms.

The strategic shift

By deploying interceptors from naval USVs, Ukraine pushes its defensive perimeter offshore and exploits coastal approach routes that Russian drones frequently use. It also sidesteps some of the limitations of ground-based radar coverage in maritime areas.

The mobility of naval platforms adds flexibility to what is already a distributed, layered defense architecture — though it introduces real constraints around communications and stability in open-water conditions.

🔗 Sumber: interestingengineering.com