People have noted that at the extrema AI will cause problems for copyrights and people won't publish original content because it will be consumed by these AI's.

People have noted that at the extrema AI will cause problems for copyrights and people won't publish original content because it will be consumed by these AI's. All of which might be true. But it did make me wonder if AI might cause a big shift in our political/economic environment. For example, could Ai be considered a public work and a model where a key aspect of government is to reward contribution to it. That is, people would focus on generating content for AI and be paid by the government to do so with some governing body that determines the value of contribution. The idea being that enhancing the AI is a public good. At least until AI can generate its own novel and useful content. At which point things probably takeoff in a way that looks like sci-fi.