We adapt. We live in a society forged in the aftermath of industrial revolutions. Now in the aftermath of a possible AI revolution, we have to somehow divorce

We adapt. We live in a society forged in the aftermath of industrial revolutions. Now in the aftermath of a possible AI revolution, we have to somehow divorce social well-being from individual economic throughput. AI might just make wages obsolete. In any case, we can still look to human needs to predict future demands. Humans will still need to eat, exercise, learn, consume entertainment, produce creative work (creativity is necessary for us), interact with other humans and engage with the world. There will always be demand emerging from those needs. AI might replace the means through which cultural artifacts are produced at scale to meet those demands, but every revolution kind of had this same effect. On the other hand, if AI makes it so that few people would have jobs, and therefore access to goods, it will render itself obsolete because there would be no need to produce at scale, so it can't really substitute humans, it is paradoxical.