> Everyone should be terrified. The "promise" of AI is the following: remove any kind of remaining communication between humans, because that is "inefficient",

> Everyone should be terrified. The "promise" of AI is the following: remove any kind of remaining communication between humans, because that is "inefficient", and replace it with an AI that will mediate all human interactions (in business and even in other areas). Kinda, that's the kind of enshittification customers/users can expect. The truly terrifying "promise" of AI is to free the ownership class from most of its need of labor. If the promise is truly realized, what labor remains will likely be so specialized and high-skill that huge numbers of people will be completely excluded from the economy. Almost all of us here are laborers, though many don't identify as such. Our society absolutely does not have the ideological foundations to accommodate mass amounts of unemployed people, especially at the top. The best outcome is "AI" hits a wall and is a flop like blockchain: really sexy demos, but ultimately falls far, far short of the hype. The worst outcome is Sam Altman builds an AGI, and he's not magnanimous enough to run soup kitchens and homeless shelters for us and our descendants, as he pursues egotistical mega-projects with his AI minions.