Coming from a tech background I may have a slightly different “take” on the whole robot thing.
1) I think this idea “they will take total control” shtick is silly because “they” already have taken control decades, if not centuries ago. Most people’s lives are strictly controlled by their families, their jobs and their debts. What more could “they” want us to do but spend our entire lives slaving away for them?
2) Henry Ford back in the beginning of the 20th centuy recognized that for capitalism to flourish he’d have to pay his workers enough to buy the cars they were producing otherwise he wouldn’t make any money. I think it’s absolutely the same with AI, it will destroy millions of jobs in “knowledge” industries like consultancies, doctors, teachers, lawyers etc, etc. but they’ll have to find some way to pay those put out of work or they won’t sell anything (and the starving will get a bit uppity too, I suspect).
3) Just imagine all the plumbers, carpenters, bricklayers that will join the tendering industry - your toilet is plugged up and you find out you can only get a plumber in 3 months @ $50/hour OR you can tender for one tomorrow online at the going rate of $300+/hour. Brave New World indeed.
There’s 2 groups of AI prognosticators - doomers or boomers, I tend towards the later.
