Lu Qiyuan, a well-known scholar in China, recently claimed that the US has four years to avoid a significant political, social, and economic crisis. It must implement one of three reforms: structural political reform, ensuring that the money no longer serves as the world’s supply money, or launching a new wave of artificial intelligence ( AI)-driven economic growth.
If Lu Qiyuan is best, the US is facing a Herculean task. The primary participants and supporters of the current political system, the US’s corporate and financial companies, would be met with fierce opposition from structural reform. They are strongly rooted in the federal government and hold the reins over the national press.
After the West banned Russia from the world financial system, it will also be a battle to keep the money as the world’s supply money. The money system’s illegal weaponization spooked the rest of the world, which was exactly what it was trying to accomplish. De- devaluation has become a world buzzword.
Another big challenge faces the third option, which is to increase productivity exponentially thanks to AI. From the Third to the Fourth Industrial Revolution, there are generations of transitions in the world. China is expected to guide the Fourth Industrial Revolution, while the US initiated the Third Industrial Revolution, which was preceded by the Internet and ICT trend.
Industry 4.0 is the fusion of digital, biological, and physical technologies and the large- scale deployment of AI, robotics, nanotechnology, biotechnology, and the Internet of Things ( IoT ). China, the largest stock in the world, produces almost all of the equipment needed for Industry 4.0, and it has the infrastructure to support it.
Mystical aura, conflicted emotions
AI also has a spiritual underbelly. The general public, especially in the West, has indifferent thoughts about AI. Many people are concerned that private may be compromised by AI. While some claim that some tech companies may be monopolizing AI, experts contend that AI could outshine human intelligence and pose a threat to humanity’s future.
The more extreme concerns about AI can be traced to science ( cyber ) fiction. Some cyberfiction depicts AI as a global mind that has a head of its and terrible purposes: taking over the world, enslaving society, or worse – eliminating people. Which business, nation, or another organization would create an AI system that could rule the world or be able to do so is not made clear.
Additionally, AI alarmists frequently overlook the fact that autonomous systems are based in defined areas. They were created to fulfill a particular set of requirements. Playing games and analyzing health X-rays are not possible in an AI system developed for a self-driving car. No automaker may create a self-driving vehicle with its own ideas.
AI is not only website- certain, it is also culture- specific. We will receive two very different responses when enquiring about the best economic system for the 21st century from large language models ( LLM) like ChatGPT and its Chinese counterpart ERNIE. Any LLM will be able to match its creators ‘ view.
When viewed as a set of bionics, the first comprehensive idea of linear computing developed in the 1940s, AI appears less difficult. AI is built on the same ( binary- Boolean ) platform as Robotics. Technically speaking, it uses a self-learning algorithms and is a branch of cybernetics. It could be called Robotics 2.0.
Analog servers were the first model of servers. Instead of distinct binary values, they based their calculations on variations in ongoing electrical current. In the 1940s, circuit technology advancements made it possible to use linear computers, and the majority of computer professionals concurred that binary techniques were more robust and program-friendly.
In the 1940s, the British scientist Norbert Wiener developed a theoretical foundation for binary technology, which he called Robotics. With the aid of binary choices (yes or no ) and Boolean logic ( IF, THEN, AND, OR, etc. ), Wiener demonstrated that binary computers are ideal for controlling complex systems. ).
The pilot system on airplanes is a textbook illustration of a cyber system. Boolean operators allow the pilot to steer the plane from point A to point B within the navigator’s parameters. The driver makes a program correction when the aircraft is in powerful side winds. If it encounters solid winds, it does rev up the machines to keep on schedule.
After World War II, cyber theory was crucial to the development of technology and other manufacturing technologies. It made it possible for engineers to create control techniques for performance and reliability while modeling complex systems and predicting how they would behave. The conceptual foundation for contemporary technology was also provided by robotics.
In the 1950s, the arts embraced robotics. Among people, it was used to analyze social systems, organizations, and managing processes. Cybernetics provides tools for selection- making processes, corporate habits, control technology and systems thinking.
The cyber method is based on three actions: plan, estimate and navigate. The schedule defines the goal or destination, the measurement determines the required tools, and the wheel, using a feedback system, guidelines the system to its place. The process can be applied to any method, whether an pilot, a manufacturer or an entire country.
Norbert Wiener called this new scientific robotics to show its standard work: wheel. The term robotics derives from the Greek kybernētēs, meaning” I steer, travel, information, work as a pilot”.
The commander of a fleet was referred to in Plato as the “world.” The first instance of a direct comments system was a ship’s rudder. The Latin problem, gubernātor, is the root of the current phrase state or to regulate.
Robotics even spread to the cultural, political and economic regions. Following World War II, the Five and Ten Year Plans were influenced by cyber principles. Although they had a combined victory, China continued to use long-term planning even after the 1970s market liberalization.  ,
Deng Xiaoping’s second Five- Time Schedule called for laying the foundation for modernization, infrastructure development, and agrarian modernization. China’s transition from an agricultural nation to an industrialized one was the goal.  ,
Additionally, Xi Jinping’s current Five-Year Plan had ambitious objectives. Among others, it calls for” a society in which no one is poor and everyone receives an education, has paid employment, more than enough food and clothing, access to medical services, old- age support, a home and a comfortable life”.
For China, planning is an imperative. The population is significantly declining. A growing number of elderly people will need to receive physical and financial care from a population that is shrinking. Industry 4.0 technology will need to be at the rescue.
Cybernetics is a branch of a multidisciplinary discipline. It offers a framework for all aspects of human development – social, ecological, political, and technological, even psychological and philosophical. Moreover, cybernetics is neutral, a- political, universal and based on binary logic.
A plan is all that cybernetics requires. Without a plan, as Plato pointed out, society is like a ship at sea without a destination, a captain or a rudder. Cybernetics requires that we state our intentions, allocate the needed resources and select reliable navigators.
The fundamental distinction between artificial intelligence and cybernetics is due to a plan’s predominance. In the cybernetics framework, AI is “merely” a tool in a larger context. It can make a plan, but it ca n’t help us get there more quickly. Only people can come up with a plan and reach agreement on the goal.
Chinese economist Lu, in his advice to the US government,  , argues that the US urgently needs a plan. In the last 40 years, China and the nation have exchanged locations. China industrialized, the US de- industrialized. Millions of Chinese people migrated to the middle class, and millions of Americans emigrated. China had a plan, the US did not.
The fate of the US is a global concern. The US is in a financial death spiral without taking care of its debt. The national budget’s interest payments on the national debt are now the largest budgetary item. The cost of paying off the debt could outweigh any other government expenditures unless the nation makes a drastic and agonizing course correction.  ,
According to economists, a nation that can print its own currency is never bankrupt. Technically speaking, that may be true, but it does not explain why a nation that can print its own currency also needs to borrow US$ 34 trillion to pay its government. This contradictory system will be put to the test by the BRICS and the growing de-dollarization coalition.
Global debt is approaching now over$ 300 trillion, or 235 % of global GDP, the highest since the Napoleonic Wars. A dollar implosion would have a negative impact on all of the world’s nations, as well as the global fiat system. Skilled navigators are necessary to navigate the world to the other side of the debt crisis.
New Thinking
The word cybernetics was first used in the modern political context by André- Marie Ampère, the French scientist and philosopher who discovered electromagnetism. Ampère, who also studied social and political systems, argued that” the future science of governance should be called cybernetics”.
Physicist Bruce Lindsay, author of the 1970 , paper” The Larger Cybernetics”, speculated on Ampère’s reasoning for using the term cybernetics. He wrote:
Ampère first used the term” cybernetique” to refer to the science of government in this memoir. Since the word “helmsman” or “governor” is used in Greek to indicate the person in charge of the ship’s direction, he clearly felt appropriate.
It is possible to say that this is the beginning of the formal recognition of control science, even though it does not appear that Ampère’s definition attracted much attention in the nineteenth century, nor does it do so in the present, until Norbert Wiener revived the term in his 1948 book, Cybernetics, making an effort to establish the subject in a more formal way.
Ampère may have influenced German philosopher Martin Heidegger, who studied the human relation to technology ( he spoke of” technicity.” ) Heidegger claimed that Friedrich Nietzsche’s nihilism had reached its zenith in a 1966 interview with Der Spiegel, which made it clear that European philosophy was insufficiently prepared to deal with technological developments. Asked what comes after philosophy, Heidegger replied:” Cybernetics.”
Heidegger added another way of thinking, “adding,” meaning the way that Nietzsche’s method of thinking contributed to the development of technology’s fundamental thrust.