> Whether or not the benefits of AI will accrue disproportionately to the top percentile has less to do with the technology, and more to do with economic polici

> Whether or not the benefits of AI will accrue disproportionately to the top percentile has less to do with the technology, and more to do with economic policies, which vary by country. Economic policies in most developed countries favor multi-national corporations because such entities generate a lot of economic activity and are tied up with the military-industrial complex which utilizes research and development from these companies alongside their own R&D for weapons. The chips in your iPhone are the same ones in fighter jets, helicopters, tanks, satellites, wireless control towers, augmented soldiers, and their "smart" weapons. Given the current state of affairs it is pretty much guaranteed that the benefits of AI will accrue to the same people who are currently in charge of the techno-industrial panopticon simply because they are the ones with access to the resources necessary to fully utilize AI systems (at the very least you need a lot of GPUs and maybe even a modular reactor or two to keep the thing functional along with the network to feed it data for "learning"). I think the folks worried about existential risks don't spend enough time on the existing problems of advanced digital technologies and the arms race already in effect between rival nations for building increasingly more powerful artificial decision makers and controllers. We are already fast approaching terminator territory[1][2]. 1: https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a42868467/ai-flies-fighter-jet-first-time/ https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a42868467... 2: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39899/darpa-now-has-ai-controlled-f-16s-working-as-a-team-in-virtual-dogfights https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39899/darpa-now-has-ai...