@Sushiglutton said:
It's really hard to take in how much society is going to change in the coming decades. It seems even bigger than the industrial revolution to me. Humanity will have gone from everyone fighting desperately to survive, to the vast majority not being able to contribute at all in a valueable way.
Exactly what will happen is very uncertain to me. People not having to do boring/repetetive tasks should be a good thing. But what will people do and how should wealth be distributed? Education-work-salary-consupmtion etc has been a bedrock of society for so long. Change is scary... But I'm also curious to see next chapter in the history of humankind!
exactly...in a post AI world, wealth will be distributed equally, aka communism. This will become more and more true as these AIs develop into more and more intelligent beings, eventually gaining sentience. Humans have a tough time understanding something else can gain sentience, but its very simple to understand when you break it down from 2 conditions.
1) Humans always improve technology
2) Human intelligence is based on a physical thing called the brain. If you make a hole in the brain, the person loses the ability to do something.
So you have incremental improvements n+1, and the fact that the brain is something that can be created using physical materials.
In the short term, most jobs will be wiped out, and in the long term, I doubt humans will do any jobs that we know of today. In the very long term, once the AI has reached a point beyond any human to control, well that when the eradication starts to happen, or the "culling". Just picture it this way...humans farm animals that we consider less intelligent. What will sentient AI do to "invasive" animals that have a destructive behavior on the environment?
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