[visarga]

We're not pets, we're the sex organs of AI. Why do I say that? AI is not a self replicator, but we are. AI can't bootstrap itself from cheap ordinary stuff laying around (yet), and when it will be able to self replicate it will owe that ability to us, maybe even borrow from us.

And secondly, you make the same mistake with those who say after automation people will have nothing to do. Incorrect, people will have discovered a million new things to do and get busy at them. Like, 90% of people used to be in agriculture and now just 2%, but we're ok.

When AI becomes better than us at what we call art now, we'll have already switched to post-AI-art, and it will be so great we won't weep for the old days. Maybe the focus will switch from creating to finding art, from performing to appreciating and developing a taste, from consuming to participating in art. We'll still do art.

[panta]

An AGI with a superior intelligence could probably also design totally autonomous factories. Being smarter than us it could even convince us to help it in the beginning in that regard. Regarding the post-AI-art, this still presupposes that humans will be somewhat superior, out of the AI creative league, despite it being more intelligent, and that the AI won't actively work against human interests -- something I wouldn't bet our existence on.