Albert90
I think nowadays our minds are so influenced by movies like Terminator etc. in which AI has been shown as our enemy. We need to understand that having advanced AI technology would truly enhance our productivity and efficiency which will consequently results in cheaper services and goods. Our main threat is that it will significantly increase unemployment rate.
We have no idea where AI is going.
In the short term we are likely to see many jobs being replaced by AI and many of these jobs will be ones that currently require a lot of study and are well remunerated but which can no longer satisfactorily serve us. This will lead to massive social dislocation, luddite behaviour before a general acceptance that AI is our future. Examples of jobs likely to become AI dominated include Medicine, Legal professionals, Scientists, Engineers... anything that does not require human dexterity to accomplish. Later we can expect AI and robotics to do most of the manual work too, from highly skilled stuff like surgeons through to unskilled work like labouring on a building site and every job in between.
In a happy longer term future, General AI will leave us free to focus on human interactions and do what ever interests us with much reduced financial and resource limits. In this scenario AI will solve all the issues that trouble us and we will expand through out the galaxy helped and supported by AI.
In a less happy future, one nation develops military technology based on AI that allow them to dominate the world forcing their agenda on everyone else.
In a more unhappy world, machines become the dominant political and military power and force humans to become a second class species governed by their decisions.
In all previous industrial revolutions old ways have been replaced by new, we rarely see anyone trying to turn the clock back to earlier days and having success. Revolutions make things better and old ways obsolete.
I do not see how this revolution can be stopped or slowed down. If one country was to try this they would rapidly become uneconomic and be crippled by more advanced competitors.
As things are the vast majority of the human population are unaware of what is coming and do not expect much to change and what changes do occur to be slowly beneficial and not radical in their effect. This is how things are before any revolution and then at some moment it becomes obvious by the effects they feel that entirely new ways have been developed while they have been busied with life and they have to adapt.
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