Sounds like something from r/Bitcoin except with AI ._.

I don't know how massively unemployed economy would work, but I guess the corporate elite locking themselves into an economical bubble where they only trade with each other and some other remaining employees isn't that crazy.

I just know that UBI itself is also a pretty crazy concept. If you gave every adult in US $30 000 a year you would need 6.27 trillion USD, which is coincidentally the exact value of US government budget for the 2022 and they're already in deficit. And that's only $30 000 a year.

The unprepared government is seriously one of the biggest problems when it comes to automation, but it's not brought up as often as it should be.

The automation wouldn't be an issue at all if they had their shit together. As I mentioned on my other comment, they're mostly technologically illiterate boomers who are mentally still decades ago and completely unaware of this. Not to mention that lot of them love lobbyists.

Hope that more young people will get politically active.

I'll be the pessimist - majority of these technologies were made to serve capitalists, not commoners like us.

If some rich corporate invested large amount of capital into automation, it was done to make them money and save on employees. The things you mentioned like cashless society or UBI are negatives for them, so they'll fight tooth and claw against those, which they already do, we couldn't make them pay their fair share of taxes while they bought themselves officials who are mostly old backward boomers who have no idea about this kind of technology nor what to do about it.

Don't get me wrong, this new AI boom is cool as fuck and I feel like we're already in the future people dreamed about decades ago, but I just don't know whether our society is advanced enough to actually utilize it well..

Moderate case scenario - we'll be the trial phase generation that will struggle adapting so that the future one may prosper with it.

I understand, I didn't meant full automation by 2030 and utopia by 2040, just that some fields could change a lot by then, but I'll admit that I wrote it bit too dramatically, sorry for that

I know the government isn't doing anything, which is why I asked as it worries me that the the government might not be capable of acting fast in case of rapid AI development