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My main worry is that a small set of capital owners will vastly benefit in a runaway AI scenario at the cost of human laborers (including service workers). If
by meany 4y ago
My main worry is that a small set of capital owners will vastly benefit in a runaway AI scenario at the cost of human laborers (including service workers). If a few companies control essentially infinite intelligence, they could capture all the income currently paid to workers, while the vast majority of workers are left obsolete.
- jmfldn 4y agoSomething like this seems possible in the sense that the productivity gains, accruing to the few who master this, will be so massive that it will impoverish the rest of is. We could be talking Elysium levels of inequality. The caveat here is that our economic setup, as unequal as it is now, will only tolerate a certain level of inequality before the system implodes. Such a massive centralisation of power would undermine capitalism itself. You'll destroy markets for a start if almost everyone becomes a penniless serf.