Though I am admittedly an AI pessimist, as regards your penultimate paragraph, I think AI evangelists would argue that the aforementioned technology may offer a

Though I am admittedly an AI pessimist, as regards your penultimate paragraph, I think AI evangelists would argue that the aforementioned technology may offer a pathway to the new paradigm that you allude to. What consistently goes unremarked upon, however, is the massive political “realignment” (a polite term for revolution) that the proliferation of AI may lead to in the not-so distant future. Disruption and likely violence that may, at best, lead to such a “new vision” for human existence.