In an interview during the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Li Yanhong said, “Artificial intelligence is a great revo- lution comparable to the Industrial Revolution.” As the chairman of Baidu, Li Yanhong apparently dared not despise the enormous potential and profound influence of AI. As a celebrity, he hoped to remind the world to focus on this social change and make suggestions for government. However, Li Yanhong's estimate of AI is not good enough.

The industrial revolution has a profound influence on the world. First of all, it was an revolution of industry. Humanity stepped into the industrial civilization from the agricultural civilization, the social productive force began to leap, the social wealth increased rapidly, and people's living standards were changing every day, which triggered a population explosion. Secondly, the industrial revolution promoted the revolution in science and technology. The ideological revolution that began with the Renaissance was loaded with engine. The ability of human being to understand and transform the world began to explode. At the same time, the industrial revolution brought about a series of social and political revolutions. Capitalism eventually defeated feudalism and triggered a socialist revolution. The subsequent progress of civili- zation in the United States and Europe allowed them to launch a series of wars to conquer the world, which intensify the conflicts of civilization and accelerate the colonial wave in the world.

The influence of the industrial revolution on human civilization is incalculable, but it is only part of the progress of human civilization. The development of artificial intelligence may be the complete end of human civilization and a new stage of world evolution. The evolution of the world that began with the Big Bang can be divided into four stages: the stage of non-biological evolution, biological evolution, human evolution, and artificial intelligence evolution.