We wanted the singularity, but all we got was more unemployed artists.
But first we'll see AI chip away at jobs. More and more revenues will flow into AI and their owners and less into the hands of everyone else. Eventually AI would be the only game in town, plus an army of unemployed people. The only thing to do then would be to tax or socialise the profits of the AI and feed the masses with the proceeds.
Or see enormous inequality and a repeat of the French revolution. How apt to write this on Bastille day!
In fact, I think there is little difference between the AI hegemony and the landowner one on 18th century. Back then you had a tiny slither of population own all the land, most of everyone else was doing menial underpaid jobs.
This is the future that hardcore anti-communists wanted. It's come true.
Even if we didn't need to justify our existence, a lot of actors would probably still like to & want to act.
Harbinger of things to come. AI will come for us all eventually.
It’s unnerving that everyone is so enthusiastic about advancing AI but put zero effort into figuring how society is going to function with significant unemployment.
We know exactly what happens next. It was laid out in Soylent Green and Day After Tomorrow