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I Built 6 AI Employees With OpenClaw. I'm Working More Than Ever ...
Vivi Mengjie Xiao built six AI employees using OpenClaw. She says she's more productive — and more tired than ever. Vivi Mengjie Xiao 2026-04-13T04:01:28.202Z A Chinese AI product manager told BI she created 6 AI employees to increase her productivity. Vivi Mengjie Xiao said her productivity soared — but so did her exhaustion. The content creator also said the future of work may look like one-person companies. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Vivi Mengjie Xiao, an AI product manager and content creator on RedNote, China's social media platform. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity. I'm an AI product manager in China, and earlier this year, my CEO asked me to explore how AI could go beyond cost-cutting, to drive innovation.Outside of work, I'm a content creator on RedNote, where I share AI tools, workflows, and insights with over 45,000 followers.I used to spend about four hours a day gathering AI industry news: reading posts on X, newsletters, blog posts, and translating English sources into Chinese. I thought: "Can I automate this?" If AI can handle information gathering, what else can it do? If I'm doing something repetitive, I should automate it.Each agent was born from a real problem I was experiencing. I created six AI employees, and they're split between work and personal life. My foray into OpenClawAt first, I set up only one "lobster" — a nickname Chinese netizens use for deploying an OpenClaw agent — and tried to make it do everything.I wanted it to manage my calendar, schedule, to-do list, and monitor my work. I get distracted easily, so I wanted it to help me focus on what I needed to do in the moment and help connect the main thread of my work.I kept stuffing other tasks into it as well, such as assigning it to manage my finances.The result of putting all of that on one lobster was that its context became long and messy. It basically became ADHD like me: jumping from one thing to another without helping me focus. It was running three work streams at once. That wasn't going to work, so I split tasks up and assigned them to different lobsters.Over time, the six AI employees naturally organized into personal vs. work, and within each category, into clear roles.I have three work agents: the administrative assistant, the researcher, and the chief of staff. The chief of staff simulates my boss's communication style, and I use it to practice and polish presentations. For personal agents, I have a life coac...
The OpenClaw Paradox: AI Agents, Labor Anxiety, and Radical Pragmatism ...
In this study group, led by M-RCBG Senior Fellow Lihui Zhang, we will explore how Chinese society demonstrates a distinctive duality in its approach to emerging technologies like AI, combining both enthusiastic adoption and underlying anxiety. While American and European companies increasingly restrict employee access to AI tools due to security concerns, Chinese organizations have embraced such technologies nearly universally across workplaces. Paradoxically, this widespread integration occurs alongside growing public apprehension about workforce displacement. Many Chinese workers express genuine concern that AI will eventually replace human labor, creating a complex emotional landscape of excitement and fear. This tension reflects broader global conversations about technological advancement and economic transformation in the AI era. China's unique societal response to technology is precisely what makes it a potential testing ground for how humanity can address the challenges of AI. Speakers and Presenters Lihui Zhang, M-RCBG Senior Fellow Organizer
Agency warns of security risks in AI tool OpenClaw due to ...
China's top cyber emergency response agency on Tuesday evening issued a risk alert over the "extremely fragile" default security configurations of Open-Claw, the viral artificial intelligence agent software. In a release, the National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team said OpenClaw has recently seen surging downloads and usage, with major domestic cloud platforms all offering ...
China's OpenClaw AI craze: the tool engineers love and regulators fear
For China's technology sector, the debate around OpenClaw AI also illustrates a familiar tension. The country's engineers and entrepreneurs continue to experiment with new tools that promise productivity gains and new business models.
