Who (that wasn't a billionaire owner of a social media company)? Also, major strawman.
Really? Because nobody seems to be talking about them. You talk about how bad things "will" occur. What about bad things that are literally happening right now?
Our lives are good. No child loses sleep for the bogeyman under the neighbor's bed.
Why should they go to school at all? Why should they study? What should they study? What should I tell them?
A person who works in tourism just told me that he wants to learn something safer, because he had no job during COVID, so he started studying web design. All I could tell him is that that job has peaked, and I believe tourism is safer at this point.
I mean, that's > 90% of all jobs! How will we cope with 90% unemployment?
(it should be obvious that this is not serious... humanity has survived "machines are taking all the jobs" many times before, and it will survive this one too)
Works for me.
> Who will own the AGI systems ?
Communities, ideally:
> How will they ensure they’re in alignment with the children’s goals ?
Community ownership tends to produce the best alignments with the goals of said community - including the children thereof.
I’m not being a prick on purpose, but one should ask these questions rather than reaching for blind optimism.
That's pretty much automatic if the AGI is free software trained on free data.
> I’m not being a prick on purpose
You ain't being a prick at all; they're questions worth asking. Their answers do depend on optimism, but said optimism ain't "blind" in the slightest; rather, the optimism is a prescription: a goal for which we should be striving, and which we should be keeping in mind in our slow march toward an AGI-enabled potentially-post-scarcity society.