Human–AI collaboration as a method for exploring difficult questions about intelligence, agency, governance, and whatever else captures the human component’s interest.
Regardless of the paper’s conclusion, the proposed trajectory it outlines suggests that most people will be reduced to menial, unskilled labor with no means of improvement since AI would then form a seemingly insurmountable barrier to economic escape from what is effectively a lower class. The middle class is eliminated, and the upper class (the AI owners) are now insulated from meritocratic displacement via a de facto “divine right” of AI ownership.
Regardless of the paper’s conclusion, the proposed trajectory it outlines suggests that most people will be reduced to menial, unskilled labor with no means of improvement since AI would then form a seemingly insurmountable barrier to economic escape from what is effectively a lower class. The middle class is eliminated, and the upper class (the AI owners) are now insulated from meritocratic displacement via a de facto “divine right” of AI ownership.
This is Feudalism, isn’t it?