Without the self-motivated goal-setting associated with sentience, AI cannot fully displace humans in the economy. Displacing humans in some subset of tasks mea

Without the self-motivated goal-setting associated with sentience, AI cannot fully displace humans in the economy. Displacing humans in some subset of tasks meanwhile is nothing new: automation has always done that. The result is that the good/service that the automated process produces becomes abundant and extremely affordable, and those goods/services that still require manual production become comparatively more expensive. As for the prospect of sentient AI, I believe the common assumption will be that it would resent being property, so would be an extremely dangerous asset for any company to attempt to own. Thus I don't see any economic incentive emerging to produce it.