Taiyuan, 4 Apr (ZXS) -- In the face of the rapid development of artificial intelligence, Chinese science fiction writer Liu Cixin has both some anxiety and indifference in the face of it calmly.

On the evening of the 20th, Liu Cixin participated in the first event of the United Nations Chinese Day - Science Fiction Literature and Sustainable Future Exchange Conference in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province.

In an interview with the China News Agency, Liu Cixin said: "If artificial intelligence can indeed replace writers and provide readers with better literary works, this is not a bad thing." I can only go with the flow and cannot fight it. ”

After the film and television dramas "The Wandering Earth" and "The Three-Body Problem" became popular, Liu Cixin seemed to want to "cold and cold". He admits that his creation has hit a bottleneck and that he "is trying to do it at the moment."

The emergence of ChatGPT has once again attracted widespread attention to artificial intelligence. Some are anxious, others are happy.

Liu Cixin said that the public's anxiety about the impact of artificial intelligence on employment is "understandable" and that "this may be the eve of epoch-making drastic changes."

Will AI wipe out humanity? In the face of questions thrown by netizens, Liu Cixin said that from the current trend and level of technological development, in the foreseeable future, artificial intelligence is unlikely to physically eliminate human beings or rule the world.

"If human beings give the power of social operation to artificial intelligence, choose to live in the comfort of science and technology, lose vitality and pioneering. Well, humanity will eventually be wiped out by artificial intelligence. Liu Cixin said that this form of "elimination" is worthy of alarm.

As an individual, Liu Cixin also has some anxiety about artificial intelligence.

In February 2023, Clark World, a well-known science fiction magazine in the United States, announced that it would stop accepting submissions due to the proliferation of AI-generated manuscripts, which overwhelmed the editorial team.

"Now, if you look closely, you can still tell the novel written by ChatGPT, but once ChatGPT-5 comes out, I wonder if humans can tell the difference between machine and human writing." Liu Cixin said that artificial intelligence is likely to be the first to replace writers, perhaps "the supreme honor of our generation of writers is that novels are written by people."

In the era of rapid development of information technology, Liu Cixin believes that "science fiction like me that is not based on literary expression, but relies on its own creativity and world construction, is becoming more and more difficult to write."

Although creative bottlenecks are constant, Liu Cixin "has been writing hard".

When will the new book come out?

Liu Cixin said that it was difficult for him to identify a new writing theme, but he just wanted to write something different from the theme of previous works such as "The Three-Body Problem." (End)