> but it remains to be seen if the wealth makes everyone's lives better, or just a select elite.
yes, as I see it this will go one of five ways, ordered by probability
0) it's all hype: AI plateaus/fizzles out, maybe minor productivity improvements
1) techno-feudalism: ruling class of AI company trillionaires exercise complete domination of 99.9999% of humanity
2) new dark age: billions of newly unemployed formerly middle class workers riot worldwide targeting DCs and fabs. AI CEOs/VCs suffer the fate of the French kings
yes, as I see it this will go one of five ways, ordered by probability
0) it's all hype: AI plateaus/fizzles out, maybe minor productivity improvements
1) techno-feudalism: ruling class of AI company trillionaires exercise complete domination of 99.9999% of humanity
2) new dark age: billions of newly unemployed formerly middle class workers riot worldwide targeting DCs and fabs. AI CEOs/VCs suffer the fate of the French kings
3) techno-utopia (Earth in Star Trek)
4) AI takeover
personally I'm hoping for 0