The Tokenization of Labor In recent months, China's tech industry has witnessed the emergence of artificial intelligence tokens as a corporate currency.
At first glance, this trend appears to be about cost cutting and efficiency, but it masks a more insidious reality. The AI token economy is built on a simple premise: every task executed by an AI model consumes tokens.
The more complex or resource intensive the task, the more tokens it requires. This means employees are now being measured not just in terms of their productivity, but also in terms of their token consumption.