[AgentME]

Luddites get panned today as just being reflexively anti-technology, but they were acting in their self-interest: they were the textile workers whose expertise and careers were threatened by machines. They lost their livelihoods.

It's possible there were alternative outcomes where everyone won. A more fair society could have found a way to make sure the replaced textile workers benefited from the machines that replaced them.

If we make machines that replace all of our economic roles, then it's possible we could make it so we benefit too, but with AGI it's not nearly enough to just choose to use it that way. AGI will not be aligned with our values if we don't make it that way. If we solve the alignment problem, then we would be able to make AGI that shares our values. AGI could solve our problems, or uplift us to its level, if we accomplish this. But this is not the default outcome if we don't solve the alignment problem.