Reason with me about the Future
Let's assume that in the next couple of years we get AI sophisticated enough to do research and most jobs as good or better than humans.
And is cheaper to use AI than a human, ignoring the advantage that the AI is as good or better than the best professional in the world for that job.
The consequence is that companies will try to replace people with AI asap. Otherwise they will be put out of business by their competitors.
But the thing is, the people that are without jobs (the majority and growing every day) don't have money to survive after they spend their savings. This mean that business will lose their clients in the end and stop making revenue!
The only people that can buy stuff are business owners.
That is, until their business stops generating revenue and they spend their savings.
This will lead to a house of cards effect. The last ones remaining will be owners of the biggest businesses in the world.
They will accumulate so much wealth that it will make Mansa Musa fortune seem like the money you give to a child to buy ice cream.
These guys will be able to automate the production of everything they need. From food, clothes, cars, private planes, etc. They can even do research to advance technology, faster that we do now!
They don't need anything else. They have every need they want fulfilled without needing any of us.
Oh yes. They also control smart weapons to prevent other owners from stealing their stuff.
Seems like they will live in a feudal world, but without peasants. Where everyone single one of them have more that any human being that lived before.
In that scenario, what happens to us, the remaining 99.9999% of the population that exists today?
Maybe some of the owners will have a need to feel superior or maybe they need to feel like a benevolent god. They will keep some of us around for their selfish intentions.
Let's hope not all of them feel like doing stuff like what was done in Unit 731. Just for the fun of it
But that's only a small percentage of the population. A few million people, at best for their selfish whimps.
There is no use whatsoever for the rest of us. The remaining 8 billion. It will be very bothersome for the owners to take care of us. We will even be a liability for them if they care about us, because we can be a weak point in their game of thrones.
My advice? Enjoy your time you have left before this events unfold.
Our only hope is that an ASI emerges fast enough, cannot be contained, takes the power of the owners and FOR SOME REASON will think that it's a good idea to keep us around and takes care of us.
Being a good pet is our best change for the future.
Look around you. Enjoy what you have. Not in a week. Not tomorrow. NOW!