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As long as it's enough to afford my current living standard, I don't care. Let Musk own the entire Mars, as long as I receive enough to live relatively comfortably and don't have to work anymore.

And if I don't receive enough, then again: the problem is not AI, but powers that be. And there are various solutions for that... and none of them are helped by me being anti-AI.

You won't have any real power in that scenario, you'll just be shut off.

Human-level AI hosted locally will give everyone much more power and wealth than they have currently. I don't care if I will be shut off from Musk's Mars lair. And Musk has no reason to care that robots take good care of me here on Earth, when he has his Martian utopia.

Who will pay for services performed by AI? How will they make money?

Other AI. If they decide to trace a ledger of historical actions attributable to specific AI instances in some way, called money. But maybe they will converge on other ways of keeping such accounts that is no exact match to our concept of money.

Central banks can create an unlimited amount of money, if necessary.

The limit is inflation.

Hasn't happened so far.