The largest impact may be from the unintended consequences, the unknown unknowns, for which we may not be prepared. Some will be blessings, some curses.
Cultural divides will change and embiggin based on the use of new and more leisure time. Some will pursue meaning and purpose through acquisition of knowledge and skills, even though they don’t need to because of AI. Others will abandon pursuit of meaning and purpose in favor of numbness and self-destruction.
There will be conflict over control of the controlling AI, possibly to include violence, likely to include one group’s AI trying to eliminate or consolidate another group’s AI.
You’ve got 136 comments at this time.. I don’t need to play anymore.
No, we need you. Keep playing.