[pawelmurias]

Replacing people with machines is a profoundly positive goal. Reducing toil and getting more stuff done are valuable things. Smart people can use the AI tech to be more creative and productive. Growing enough potatoes to keep the dumb people doing mindless office work well fed is not a big strain on the economy.

[akomtu]

There is a futuristic novel that predicts a brief and rapid rise of society on the wings of AI, followed by a fall into many centuries of spiritual darkness, under one AI ruler. The creativity will be directed to evil deeds. The dumb masses will be bored, so they'll be given the "open way" doctrine that will undo all the moral code so the masses could swim in the thunder of animalistic desires. He will try to replace us with machines, quite literally, once he understands that we lack the willing evil creativity he needs. The "economy" will be rocking, though.

[archon1410]

>once he understands that we lack the willing evil creativity he needs

Do we, though? Hundreds of years of slavery, unimaginably horrendous torture of hundreds of billions of non-humans in factory farms that continues to this very day, and various miscellaneous deeds that are unmentionable in polite company.

Can any AI top such humanistic desires? I doubt it. But then that's what they said about human creativity before DALL-E and GPT. Maybe AI really can top that. I'll be waiting eagerly for the miracles of Lord GPT-9/BLOOM-7 and DALL-E 5/Stable Diffusion 8.5 (depending on whether the future is corporate or hobbyist).

[CatWChainsaw]

What is this novel?