1. Good article about the existential threat of AI.
2. Here's how I see it.
3. The power elites of society have always needed the great mass of "peasants,” serfs, or citizen workers in order to serve in the national military to fight in the offensive and defensive wars against the militaries controlled by the elites of other nations. The power elites could not hope to protect their power positions and all their private properties without these militaries, and could not hope to advance their desires for the accumulation of more power, glory, and property without these militaries. The power elites also have always needed their military and police to quash internal insurrections, rebellions, revolutions, etc.
4. Also, the power elites of society have always needed the great mass of "peasants" in order to do the manual, professional, and managerial work needed to produce all the services, necessities, and luxury items needed and wanted by the power elites.
5. Lastly, the power elites of society have always needed the great mass of "peasants" in order provide the "narcissistic supply" (honor, glory, status) needed by the egotistical power elites.
6. The AI and robotics that are coming soon will create a situation in which the power elites will have all three of those needs completely taken care of by AI and robotics. The power elites will no longer have any need for the great mass of "peasants," the mostly powerless, mostly propertyless nobodies of the world.
7. The really crucial change will be when all or most of the policing and military combat service is performed by AI enabled robotic machines that are controlled by the power elites in the government and the private sector.
8. And I think we can be pretty sure that the power elites, with all their needs being met by the AI and robotic machines that they own, will not continue carrying the burden of governing, leading, teaching, or otherwise taking any interest in the wellbeing the great masses of nobodies that that they no longer have any need of.
9. Ayn Rand will prove to be a prophetess: Atlas is gonna shrug.
10. And then we’ll see a catastrophe like humankind has never seen before.
1. Good article about the existential threat of AI.
2. Here's how I see it.
3. The power elites of society have always needed the great mass of "peasants,” serfs, or citizen workers in order to serve in the national military to fight in the offensive and defensive wars against the militaries controlled by the elites of other nations. The power elites could not hope to protect their power positions and all their private properties without these militaries, and could not hope to advance their desires for the accumulation of more power, glory, and property without these militaries. The power elites also have always needed their military and police to quash internal insurrections, rebellions, revolutions, etc.
4. Also, the power elites of society have always needed the great mass of "peasants" in order to do the manual, professional, and managerial work needed to produce all the services, necessities, and luxury items needed and wanted by the power elites.
5. Lastly, the power elites of society have always needed the great mass of "peasants" in order provide the "narcissistic supply" (honor, glory, status) needed by the egotistical power elites.
6. The AI and robotics that are coming soon will create a situation in which the power elites will have all three of those needs completely taken care of by AI and robotics. The power elites will no longer have any need for the great mass of "peasants," the mostly powerless, mostly propertyless nobodies of the world.
7. The really crucial change will be when all or most of the policing and military combat service is performed by AI enabled robotic machines that are controlled by the power elites in the government and the private sector.
8. And I think we can be pretty sure that the power elites, with all their needs being met by the AI and robotic machines that they own, will not continue carrying the burden of governing, leading, teaching, or otherwise taking any interest in the wellbeing the great masses of nobodies that that they no longer have any need of.
9. Ayn Rand will prove to be a prophetess: Atlas is gonna shrug.
10. And then we’ll see a catastrophe like humankind has never seen before.