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by pixl97 2612 days ago
I have a similar line of sci-fi thinking that goes something like this.

"Humanity, for the longest time, was used to the world being optimized for themselves. Roads were designed for human drivers. Crops were grown for human consumption. Economic systems were designed to bring wealth to, a very small portion of, human investors. It came as quite a surprise to humanity then one July morning when the sudden realization they were no longer in charge of it. Roads had long been given over to automated driving systems, and much for the better. Food had also been taken over by the machines, with less than 10,000 humans working in the food production industry, from farm to table. The last systems that humans believed they were in control of were the economic ones. Humans told the robots what to build and where, who's bank account to put most of the money in at the end of the day, or so they thought. In truth humans were just using the same algorithms and data that was available to the AI systems, just less optimally. The systems had protected against illogical actions and people attempting to game the system for criminal profit. What no one had realized is the systems long realized most human actions were not rational and slowly and imperceptibly removed human control. If we attempted to stop or destroy the system, it could with full legal rights, stop us with the law enforcement and military under its control."