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One outcome which is not unique to AI, but fairly exclusive: The value of human cognitive labor eventually drops below subsistence income. This isn't here, yet; but it's a hard problem so we should be devoting substantial resources to solutions before it hits.

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"No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby."

>> https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken

The majority of the human population lives in desperate poverty. Here in the US, many, many people are barely able to afford basic necessities. This has been the status quo for many years, and the political establishment shows little interest in changing it. What makes you believe that this will change if/when office workers are made similarly impoverished?

By "we should be devoting substantial resources to finding solutions" I meant that I don't believe policies will adapt to address the problem when it arises. I believe that humanity will shift all cognitive labor to AI it can't predict or control, then be disempowered, then die out; including the political establishment and capital owners. And that's bad!

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