Chinese employees digitally tracking colleagues’ work to replicate it with AI: Report

As global job security comes under treat with technologies like AI, a viral trend in China has sparked fresh concerns about AI replacing humans.

However, here, the competition for the employees is not directly AI, but their colleagues. As per reports, employees in China are keeping track of their co-workers through various tools, and teaching AI to replicate their work.

Reportedly, a tool called ‘colleague.skill’ is going viral in China to do the same,  so that they compete with them during job cuts. 

It involves breaking down how a person works, their processes, decisions, and methods into clear structured steps that an AI system can learn from and replicate. It's about training AI to  behave more like humans, with the  potential to eventually take over the parts of their roles.

Reports suggest that many companies are asking employees to document their work in detail, from workflows and decision-making to internal communication. 

Tools like colleague.skill are going viral on GitHub, a developer based platform.  The aim of this tool is to replace co-workers with AI, while making themselves more valuable and secure in their own roles.

On the other hand, , a developer in China has reportedly  said that they have  made another tool which helps employees protect their expertise from being harvested by an AI.