> To be clear, we agree that AIs will eventually outperform humans at nearly all economically valuable activities, and this will lead to a significant accelerat

> To be clear, we agree that AIs will eventually outperform humans at nearly all economically valuable activities, and this will lead to a significant acceleration in economic growth. The (literal) trillion-dollar question, though, is who benefits from this significant acceleration in economic growth? Every major technological revolution, from the Agricultural through the Industrial and into the Digital Revolution, has produced further and further stratification of society. Will this one be the exception? I can see four ways this can go: 1. We repeat our mistakes, with power concentrating into ever-fewer hands while everyone else enjoys less and less autonomy (at best, in exchange for the bare minimum token quality-of-life improvements to prevent revolts) 2. We learn from our mistakes and achieve the fully-automated luxury gay space communist utopia that techno-optimism has promised us 3. We riot and conduct an anti-automation purge, Butlerian Jihad style 4. We discover that AI wasn't all it's hyped up to be and any AI-driven technological revolution is still a long ways off I'm hoping for #2. I'm expecting #1 or #4. Society is trending toward #1 or #3.