The only significant threat AI is likely to pose is the continual obsolesce of human labor. Long before any of the AI-led disaster scenarios (evil AI, rogue pap

The only significant threat AI is likely to pose is the continual obsolesce of human labor. Long before any of the AI-led disaster scenarios (evil AI, rogue paperclip machine, singularity, whatever), sufficiently flexible software will make a lot, potentially even most, knowledge work obsolete. Human work will become increasingly menial, as the main advantage we have turns out to be that flexible robots are expensive. At some point the cost of living and the market value of unskilled labor will invert, and hungry people will lash out against the now-static capital class, which, depending on how far autonomous warfare advances before then, could either result in a fundamental upheaval of our economic system to wield automation technology for the common good, or result in feudalism and a dramatic drop in the supported population. But none of that is AI's fault. It's our own greedy economic system. I'm willing to bet at least a few countries pull it off all right.