What’s being proposed by the AI maximalists (and grifters) seems to bear an uncanny resemblance to states of old which were based on a tiny minority of oligarchs running the show via a vast network of slaves (or agentic AI in this case), with actual humans only able (or, rather, allowed to) perform menial physical labor. This has been tried. And it doesn’t exactly sound progressive, does it? Such an economic system seems doomed to eventually descend into revolution and violent overthrow. Perhaps only the nations that assiduously avoid this AI “utopia” will be the ones to actually survive? See, I get the feeling that robots are going to pretty much suck at house-to-house fighting with small arms and grenades (in cities reduced to rubble) for the foreseeable future. Machines can destroy, but you still need infantry to take and hold. And what human soldier is going to fight on behalf of a detached technocratic oligarchy with whom they have absolutely nothing in common, and which is actively ruining the lives of their friends and loved ones? Careful what you wish for, my nerds. Real careful. submitted by /u/Kondor999
Originally posted by u/Kondor999 on r/ArtificialInteligence