Stanley Chen Qiufan says “crisis” has two meanings in Chinese: one means crisis, the other means opportunity or chance.
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We can foresee it coming that AI might be the thing that can reunite us human as a species, as a civilization, together. So this is so important because always in history, when you look back in time, we need some false enemy. Right now we need something so distinguishable, distinguished from human. So the others, they’re so different from our own kind, but this is what threatening us. Maybe it’s not for real, but we need that kind of thing, we need that external crisis to push us to think, to act, to united as one again.
So maybe this is a Chinese crisis, which can be translated into two characters. One is is crisis. Another means opportunity or chance. So in Chinese, the two together always means two parts of the reality.
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