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> Surely you mean the top 1%, who have the capital to invest into robots?

Whomever we empower. The people left out of the loop would die, suffer in quiet subsistence or be folded into the society. The first two are the "people are pests" solution. You see it in resource-rich countries where the population isn't part of the economic machinery.

The last is precedented; see how ancient Sparta dealt its public allotments of land and slaves. Which way various societies go will depend, in part, on decisions we take today. (Should such a future come to pass, which, again, is predicated on massive leaps in robotics and AI.)




We'll see. Don't forget that AI + robots is a dangerous combination on its own, in more than one way.


> We'll see. Don't forget that AI + robots is a dangerous combination

Also, a totally fictional one.


All possible futures are fictional until they happen.

That said, as limited as AI and robotics are today, they are nevertheless already sufficient to be extremely dangerous.




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