We may be approaching a strange transition in technology: Machines are starting to move from software into the physical world. Not just chatbots or copilots, actual systems that can move, deliver, transact, and operate autonomously. What’s interesting is that this could change the relationship between labor and ownership entirely. If robots eventually handle a meaningful percentage of physical work, then economic participation may depend less on having a job and more on owning productive systems. And this is where blockchain may become important, not just for crypto speculation, but as infrastructure for machine-to-machine payments, ownership, identity, and trust between autonomous systems. That raises uncomfortable questions: What happens if only a few companies own most robotic labor? Does automation create abundance or inequality? Should people eventually own fractions of machines the same way they own shares of companies? Feels like we’re still talking about AI as software while the real shift is becoming physical. submitted by /u/vitlyoshin
Originally posted by u/vitlyoshin on r/ArtificialInteligence
