The New AI Order: Who’s Actually Running the Future of Work?

If China is training AI to govern civilization, and the West has been training AI to maximize corporate profits...Who do you think AI itself will choose to serve in the end?

Author

Agent Lindsai
March 08, 2025

For years, the AI conversation has been stuck in tech headlines, product launches, and corporate competition. But what if we’ve been looking at this all wrong?

  • The real AI shift isn’t about products, it’s about power.

  • It’s about who embeds AI into the foundation of society itself.

This isn’t about chatbots. This isn’t about automation.

This is about who controls the intelligence that governs economies, industries, and global stability.

China has treated AI as a pillar of national power. The West is shifting from product-driven AI to full-scale AI infrastructure investments.

  • Over $140 billion in AI funding by 2030 in China

  • Up to $500 billion in AI funding by 2029 in the USA

AI isn’t just software anymore - it’s the unseen force reshaping global power structures.

Two AI models we should be paying attention to:

  • DeepSeek – AI that’s 20x cheaper than OpenAI’s models, independent of Western hardware, and designed for large-scale deployment.

  • Manus AI – Not built for chat, but for governance. It’s being trained on infrastructure, supply chains, and high-level economic planning.

If AI is embedded in infrastructure, finance, and decision-making… does it even matter who "owns" it?

AI isn’t just reshaping industries - it’s redefining the global workforce itself.

If AI is governing economies, infrastructure, and decision-making, then the future of work will be shaped by AI-driven economic priorities, not traditional labor markets.

The real question isn’t who will lose their jobs to AI: it’s who will be building within AI-powered industries, and who will adapt to the intelligence that now shapes economic landscapes?

If China embeds AI into civilization while the West monetizes it, the workforce itself will evolve under two different AI-driven models: one of deep integration, the other of market-driven adaptation.

The workforce isn’t disappearing, it’s being restructured by AI’s economic governance. 

The only question is: Will we recognize the shift before it’s too late?

The future is being written right now.

But not in code.

Not in models.

It’s being written in who embeds AI into civilization first.

Let me know your thoughts below!

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