In the era of AI, where are the opportunities for ordinary people? Deep Dialogue: Kevin Kelly (KK), the Godfather of Silicon Valley Spirit, Full Interview Original Text+Core Golden Sentences! (The most popular conversation on the internet between Yang Yiyi and Kevin Kelly, I have compiled the core points for my friends.) Host: Many people panic about AI grabbing jobs, do ordinary people still have a chance? Where is the opportunity? Kevin Kelly: AI will greatly expand the number of opportunities, ways of making money, and career possibilities. It is not about depriving opportunities, but opening up more possibilities to every ordinary person, just like everyone has a smartphone today. AI will make opportunities more equal. The only things that will truly be eliminated by AI are repetitive, mechanical, standardized, and robot like work. To be honest, most of the jobs that are replaced are simply consumable labor that no one truly loves. AI helping us get rid of these meaningless jobs is a good thing in itself. My most essential survival advice for ordinary people is to do your best to make yourself unpredictable and unique. The essence of AI is based on probability, regularity, and standardized operation. The less replicable, personalized, and unconventional you are, the safer and less likely you are to be replaced. Host: Ordinary people don't need to understand code or technology. What specific opportunities should they seize? Kevin Kelly: The opportunity for ordinary people is never to do technological research and development, but to seize three core directions: 1. Become a user, manager, and calibrator of AI In the future, everyone will be an AI manager. You don't need to write code, but you need to be able to command AI, review AI results, provide support for AI, and establish trust. AI can work, but taking responsibility, building trust, and providing human touch will always be the core values of humanity, which machines cannot replace. As you mentioned before, cross-border AI tools, AI content outsourcing, and transportation arbitrage are essentially ordinary people using AI to amplify efficiency, profit from poor information, poor service, and poor trust. This is the most practical opportunity. 2. Deeply cultivate vertical fields and become an "industry AI application expert" Big model giants monopolize the underlying technology, but vertical industries and segmented tracks will always be the blue ocean for ordinary people. For example, in cross-border e-commerce, foreign trade factories, local businesses, and niche content, you don't need to create AI. As long as you combine AI tools with your industry and provide solutions to bosses, merchants, and ordinary people, it is a huge opportunity. 3. Sell experience, sell connection, sell emotional value AI can generate copy, images, videos, and data, but the real experience, trust between people, emotional resonance, personal style, niche aesthetics, and social customs are things that AI can never replicate. The top of the future value chain is experience and trust, which is the easiest track for ordinary people to enter. Host: How can ordinary people improve themselves to seize the dividends of the AI era? Kevin Kelly: Future knowledge itself is not valuable because AI knows more than you do. The ultimate meta ability of ordinary people is to learn how to learn - to adapt quickly, iterate quickly, and update their cognition for life. Don't pursue becoming the "best technical talent", pursue becoming a unique person: reading useless books, doing seemingly useless things, establishing personal traits, and having unique experiences are all your moats. Disruptive innovation and wealth opportunities always come from external, peripheral, and ordinary people, not giants. Giants turn around very slowly, and ordinary people can seize opportunities before giants react as long as they grasp the niche track and information gap. Host: In summary, what are the core opportunities for ordinary people in the AI era? Kevin Kelly: Not selling technology, only selling poor information, poor trust, and poor service; Don't be tough with giants, be unique in your niche field. AI is not an enemy, it is the strongest tool for ordinary people to lower barriers, enhance capabilities, and achieve social mobility.