One possibility that I and many others consider likely is a singularity—Foom.
Along its lines of thinking are
Once the first AI reaches human level, or AGI or some milestone around that point, it can self improve very rapidly.
This AI will rapidly construct self replicating nanotech or some better tech we haven’t yet imagined, and become very powerful.
At this stage, what happens is basically whatever the AI wants to happen. Any problem short of quantum vacuum collapse can be quickly magiced away by the AI.
There will only be humans alive at this point if we have programmed the AI to care about humans. (A paperclip maximising AI would disassemble the humans for raw materials)
Any human decisions beyond this point are irrelevant, except to the extent that the AI is programmed to listen to humans.
There is no reason for anything resembling money or a free market to exist, unless the AI wants to preserve them for some reason. And it would be a toy market, under the total control of the AI.
If you do manage to get multiple competing AI’s around, and at least one cares about humans, we become kings in the chess game of the AI’s (Pieces that it is important to protect, but are basically useless)
One possibility that I and many others consider likely is a singularity—Foom.
Along its lines of thinking are
Once the first AI reaches human level, or AGI or some milestone around that point, it can self improve very rapidly.
This AI will rapidly construct self replicating nanotech or some better tech we haven’t yet imagined, and become very powerful.
At this stage, what happens is basically whatever the AI wants to happen. Any problem short of quantum vacuum collapse can be quickly magiced away by the AI.
There will only be humans alive at this point if we have programmed the AI to care about humans. (A paperclip maximising AI would disassemble the humans for raw materials)
Any human decisions beyond this point are irrelevant, except to the extent that the AI is programmed to listen to humans.
There is no reason for anything resembling money or a free market to exist, unless the AI wants to preserve them for some reason. And it would be a toy market, under the total control of the AI.
If you do manage to get multiple competing AI’s around, and at least one cares about humans, we become kings in the chess game of the AI’s (Pieces that it is important to protect, but are basically useless)