> Are there though? We are just at the front of the curve, if we look at the whole... what if AI destroys the underlying mechanics of exchange society and we re

> Are there though? We are just at the front of the curve, if we look at the whole... what if AI destroys the underlying mechanics of exchange society and we rely upon. I fully agree that there are risks and the one you describe is quite real. However, there are important wrinkles which render campaigning against rushed AI impractical and possibly outright damaging for the cause. For one, the presumptive winners define themselves as such because... they can! Power corrupts, good luck using persuasion to uncorrupt it. In other words, they'll take their chances, hide in their bunkers, etc. Human nature hasn't changed in the last 100 years except for the worse. Next, the problem with AI is just another step in the complicated relations between man and machine. In other words it's a political problem and there's history of successfully solving it by political means. The previous solutions involved workers rights and wider sharing of the fruits of productivity increases. It took some work to get it done and it can be done again despite the concerted efforts of the would be "winners" to prevent it and pull us back in the Gilded Age.