[jruohonen]

I also fear about the destiny of the open Internet. The AI garbage and fake-everything will flood the zone, as it is already doing. This flooding may also have some positive consequences such as the death of social media.

Though, writing from Europe, I believe governments will take a more active role in creating these "human-zones" with real identity verification. For instance, in the EU we already have the eID project in the making:

https://ec.europa.eu/digital-building-blocks/wikis/display/D...

Moreover, I am still highly skeptical about the labor market impacts upon white-collar jobs. The alleged productivity increases will mostly mean automating boring menial tasks in these jobs.

Impacts upon democracy and politics are also my biggest concerns at the moment.