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What activity would the majority of the population perform now that does not require one to be in the top few percentiles of human intellect (nature or nurture argument aside)?

We moved people from fields to factories to offices with most of them still relegated to doing relatively simple repeatable tasks.

Now if you have a tool which can take over those tasks, get better at doing them and other tasks at almost an exponential rate you might have a problem on your hands.

And no UBI isn’t a solution and one of the possible danger of AI is that the change can be far more rapid than before. Mechanization and industrialization took generations, software can be iterated on and pushed at much greater pace so you also have a major risk that even if societal adaptations would be possible they might not be at the pace of change you’ll likely to see.

Now it doesn’t mean that we should be smashing GPUs and FPGAs en mass however one should not dismiss the danger of what happens when several generations both incumbent and upcoming that were educated and trained for a very specific world all of a sudden find themselves in a very different one.