The dumbest thing a smart person can do is work on AI for a company he doesn't own. See, he gets a fixed amount of money[0] for his work and if AI is achieved,

The dumbest thing a smart person can do is work on AI for a company he doesn't own. See, he gets a fixed amount of money[0] for his work and if AI is achieved, he becomes redundant, irrelevant, economically completely useless. The owners own the company and the product _and_ all subsequent income from the product. So he has a fixed amount of money that must last him the rest of his life while the owners keep getting richer forever (their children inherit the company) from all subsequent wealth created by the thing he created. --- And this completely ignored that A"I" is built on top of the work of people who have never been compensated in any way at all, often despite using licenses which explicitly forbid derivative works. The trick? Calling it "AI" and pretending it is not derivative work, despite being impossible to create without the training data. [0]: You might say what if his compensation includes stock options? Well, have you seen a company where the workers own the majority? He gets a tiny part of this passive income while the owners still keep getting richer at a much faster rate. And money is not food/housing, it's only a medium of exchange. What you can actually buy with it depends on how much everyone has so if he is getting poorer relatively, he is getting poorer, period.