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I doubt that people behind AI-based means of production will be altruistic enough to share the wealth created by AI systems. We are not sharing the wealth creat
by 29athrowaway 6y ago
I doubt that people behind AI-based means of production will be altruistic enough to share the wealth created by AI systems. We are not sharing the wealth created by trading bots, or other forms of automation. If anything, it has helped worsen the concentration of wealth problem.
My prediction is that automation will create a neo-feudal society that will slowly transition into a humanless society. Wealth created by automation will be used to buy land and automated defense systems, and all the wealth, territory and power will concentrate in few hands.
Automated defense systems will not have morality, will not make any questions and will just do what they're asked. Their allegiance will be to the people buying them, and that allegiance will be total and unconditional.
Ultimately, all the wealth asymmetry will be converted into a territorial and military power asymmetry, and once this conversion is completed, the elites will enslave humanity and place limits on their reproduction rate. Why? because they won't want to share the natural resources with random people.
For now, the name of the game is to accumulate as much money as possible until that conversion is possible and invest in the advancement of AI.
Then, there will be a competition between the remaining people, that will force them to develop more powerful AI to prevail over each other. After certain point, more decisions will have to be delegated to the AIs in order to prevail making the AIs impossible to control. This is when AI augmented humans will become human augmented AIs. The influence of AIs will grow and then AIs will mutate humans to suit their needs, doing to us the same we do to cattle: artificially selecting individuals favoring the traits they like, turning us into the equivalent of farm animals.
- akban 6y agoAnd I suggest you cut down on excessive reading of post-apocalyptic sci-fi novels.
- 29athrowaway 6y agoYou are free to make any alternative prediction you want. I am not much into fiction, I am more into history.