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all we can hope for is that whoever is developing AI tech has read the culture novels by Iain M. Banks, and we head for a post-capitalist society, rather than Terminator style doomsday scenario.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture
The Culture is a symbiotic society of artificial intelligences, humanoids and other alien species who all share equal status. All essential work is performed (as far as possible) by non-sentient devices, freeing sentients to do only things that they enjoy.
As such, the Culture is a post-scarcity society, where technological advances ensure that no one lacks any material goods or services.
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There was an opinion piece in the FT from a guy who invests in AI about the approaching "Artifical General Intelligence" models or "God-like AI" or basically Skynet.
Argues that this type of AI needs governement level co-operation like CERN and only be researched on a fucking island air-gapped from the rest of the world.
Don't have nightmares.
https://www.ft.com/content/03895dc4-a3b7-481e-95cc-336a524f2ac2