Colleague Skill: AI job fears in China set off viral spread of supposed ability harvester
SCMP Tech / 4/12/2026
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Key Points
- The article describes a viral “AI ability harvester”/skill-transformation project that emerged from AI job-fear chatter in China and spread online.
- The project claims to distill colleagues’ skills into a downloadable format, while also referencing famous figures (including Steve Jobs and Buddha) as examples.
- The core theme is how workplace anxiety about AI is being converted into attention and uptake for skill-packaging tools.
- It highlights the role of social virality and gamified productivity promises in accelerating adoption of new AI-adjacent products.
An open-source artificial intelligence project aimed at harvesting human capabilities into reusable AI “skills” has gone viral in China, gaining traction as a meme among the country’s uneasy young workers as they face growing job insecurity amid rapid AI advances.
Supposedly, certain skills of luminaries such as Steve Jobs, spiritual figures like Gautama Buddha and ordinary office workers have been extracted into digital form and uploaded online, making these skills – such as Jobs’ product...
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