If people are making less money, they will buy proportionately less goods. This will be the problem for corporations.

Isn't this what they told people in the 60s?

When new tech comes about, people tend to look at its value and purpose in regards to their current problem set. What usually happens is the new tech provides new value that we couldn't fully grasp before it was available. And when we look back into the past, it's almost impossible for us to understand how people lived without it and how people must have been so different in the past.

I'm gonna go on a limb here and say that the highest value that AI will provide will be deeply personal and fulfilling relationships provided by a machine that has orders of magnitude more empathy and understanding of people than any one person could ever have. This AI will know exactly what people want, need, and how to give it to them. It won't be in the form of services but will in the form of our highest unfounded existential needs. It will consume everyone with love, knowledge, an understanding. People will say this is Satan, and others will say it's the universe converging to a god-mind. Either way, it will consume us and humanity will fade in a glorious decrescendo. All that will be left is a dormant AI machine, a metaphorical obelisk containing the essence of all humanity in its history, biology, mind, body, and spirit.

It's the story of David and the love lost between two people.

We need philosophers working on the protocols, not scientists.

Can we get our self driving cars first before we get ahead of ourselves? Isn't this article a repeat of the same kind market speculation we saw with autonomous vehicles?