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Everyone is a founder Surely you mean the top 1%, who have the capital to invest into robots?

• JumpCrisscross 3y ago
  > Surely you mean the top 1%, who have the capital to invest into robots? Whomever we empower. The people left out of the loop would die, suffer in quiet subsistence or be folded into the society. The first two are the "people are pests" solution. You see it in resource-rich countries where the population isn't part of the economic machinery. The last is precedented; see how ancient Sparta dealt its public allotments of land and slaves. Which way various societies go will depend, in part, on decisions we take today. (Should such a future come to pass, which, again, is predicated on massive leaps in robotics and AI.)
  • p1esk 3y ago
    We'll see. Don't forget that AI + robots is a dangerous combination on its own, in more than one way.
    • JumpCrisscross 3y ago
      > We'll see. Don't forget that AI + robots is a dangerous combination Also, a totally fictional one.
      • ben_w 3y ago
        All possible futures are fictional until they happen. That said, as limited as AI and robotics are today, they are nevertheless already sufficient to be extremely dangerous.