Last year's joke is next year's reality. Every year I feel a bit less crazy in my silly armchair speculation that the Second Renaissance from the Animatrix is

Last year's joke is next year's reality. Every year I feel a bit less crazy in my silly armchair speculation that the Second Renaissance from the Animatrix is a good documentary. If AI "takes over" it will be via economic means and people will go willingly until they have gradually relinquished control of the world to something alien. (Landian philosophers make the case that hyperstitional capitalism has already done this) I would take the over that this will happen sooner than later -- when it's proven to make a lot of money to have an AI CEO, suddenly everyone will change their tune and jump on the bandwagon with dollar signs in their eyes, completely ignoring what they are giving up. Except unlike e.g. the metaverse/cryptocurrency bandwagon of yesteryear, there's no getting off.