Humans with fewer skills than the elite were not pushed out of the employment market by the invention of dishwashers, laundry machines, or vacuum cleaners. The invention of AI is hardly different.
It's absolutely not. Siri's never driven a car or beaten a human at Go.
But all of us? That's where the class thing comes in.
You could argue that technology is the whole reason we have social classes in the first place.
You have to ask yourself what's so different about AI. It's an interesting question, but none of the more dramatic answers are really unprecedented. It's a "what is true isn't new, and what's new isn't true," sort of deal.
Is it going to make some of us useless? Then it's going to make all of us useless, because there won't be any point in just deploying AI to serve only the elites. All technology eventually filters out to serve everyone.
Why? If it's the elites that deploy it?
An example of this is military tech. The US sells surplus military equipment to anybody that will buy it, even sophisticated kit like F-16s. Naturally, they keep the best stuff to themselves, you can't buy an F-22 at the moment for any price. But eventually even the F-22 will be old tech and you'll be able to buy one.
Computers in the 50s couldn't talk to you or how to tell you whether its raining in Tulsa just by you asking it.
AI is early days.
This amuses me: https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=movie+where+a+professor+si...
The third result is the one I'm looking for.
DeepMind can learn atari games on its own.
The future is arriving quickly.
I don't see any link that could answer that question in my first page of results.
the answer is: "The Man From Earth", a movie. A very good movie.