> The development of AI will clearly have society-changing effects, just as the arrival of the internet and mobile communication did. Or, maybe the economics c

> The development of AI will clearly have society-changing effects, just as the arrival of the internet and mobile communication did. Or, maybe the economics can't be made to pencil out, and AI is abandoned (again). > The impossibility lies in knowing the speed of adoption, and which lumps of capital will earn extraordinary returns and which will end up getting torched. Almost certainly all of it will end up getting torched.