I’m guessing that people who “made it” have a bunch of capital that they can use to purchase AI labor under the scenario you outline (i.e., someone gets superintelligence to do what they want).
If the superintelligence is willing to deprive people of goods and services because they lack capital, then why would it be empathetic towards those that have capital? The superintelligence would be a monopsony and monopoly, and could charge any amount for someone existing for an arbitrarily short amount of time. Assuming it even respects property law when it is aligned with its creators.
Is it that the government (or whoever directs superintelligences) is going to kill the rest because of the same reasons we worry about misaligned superintelligences
“Kill” is such a dirty word. Just not grant them the means to sustain themselves.
or that they’re going to enrich themselves while the rest starves (but otherwise not consuming all useful resources)? If that’s this second scenario you’re worrying about, that seems unlikely to me because even as a few parties hit the jackpot, the rest can still deploy the remaining capital they have. Even if they didn’t have any capital to purchase AI labor, they would still organize amongst themselves to produce useful things that they need, and they would form a different market until they also get to superintelligence, and in that world, it should happen pretty quickly.
Why would capital owners with a superintelligence ever let those without capital build their own superintelligence? That sounds like a recipe for AI war—are the poors really going to program their superintelligence with anything other than the fundamental rejection of the concept of capital ownership in a post-scarcity society?
If the superintelligence is willing to deprive people of goods and services because they lack capital, then why would it be empathetic towards those that have capital? The superintelligence would be a monopsony and monopoly, and could charge any amount for someone existing for an arbitrarily short amount of time. Assuming it even respects property law when it is aligned with its creators.
“Kill” is such a dirty word. Just not grant them the means to sustain themselves.
Why would capital owners with a superintelligence ever let those without capital build their own superintelligence? That sounds like a recipe for AI war—are the poors really going to program their superintelligence with anything other than the fundamental rejection of the concept of capital ownership in a post-scarcity society?