I think people tend to cooperate only when there are tangible benefits such as: - survival - making money - sex - enjoyment via social interactions (like pa

I think people tend to cooperate only when there are tangible benefits such as: - survival - making money - sex - enjoyment via social interactions (like parties, hangouts, etc) It just so happens that for the majority of our civilization, to get those things, we've had to cooperate, but as we develop technology, our ability to get those things increases and our reliance on others decrease (though in a weird way it increases since technology is complexity so society becomes larger, more complex, and more inter-dependent) We are still in an unprecedented technological boom of computing so we are adjusting on the fly to it. Like the OP says, AI can greatly accelerate independent learning, but eventually that learning plateaus. Once it does, we have to go back to collaboration, but until we find that limit, I think it's human nature to push on.