[pixl97]

You're making a lot of odd assumptions here that can break when the underlying ideas on how things work...

People work to create things... at this point there is a shared duopoly between humans and machines on creating things (in the past animals used to be heavily involved in this labor, and no longer are). Now think what happens if humans are not needed, especially in mass, to create things.

Right now if you're rich you need other humans to dig up coal or make solar panels so you can produce things and sell them to make the yacht you want. But what would happen if you no longer needed the middle part and all those humans that want rights and homes and such in the middle? They would not longer be a means, but a liability. Price no longer is a consideration, human capital is no longer a consideration, control of energy, resources, and compute now is.

[m4nu3l]

It depends on how AI technologies are distributed in society. Let's assume the worst case. A restricted set of people have access to AI technologies. Let's call them "The AI Rich". All the rest of the population is effectively useless to the AI rich.

You are saying that the rest of the population will starve to death because the AI rich won't given them jobs. They won't build their houses etc.

But guess what? In a free market the AI poor can still trade and work as they always did. It doesn't matter if the AI rich build and exchange yachts and other luxury goods between them.

What you have now is a two tier economy, but not one where people are starving.

This is also the worst case scenario which I don't think it's going to happen as AIs systems are proving quite easy to replicate and most algorithms are open-source (and training data is available publicly).