[OkayPhysicist]

That's the good ending of AI advancement.

The bad ending is that we continue the current trend, where the profit margins created by increasing labor productivity are completely captured by capital, and ~90% of the population starves.

You're more optimistic than I am.

[staunton]

People aren't just going to say "OK, I guess I'm useless now" and simply starve. The scenario you're talking about has something like a civil war in there somewhere. Keep in mind that the people being replaced this time are the ones with political and economic power. This has never happened before.

By the way, in my book the bad ending of AI advancement is where skynet kills all humans.

[GravityLab]

The social contract will be massively upgraded so that work becomes about self-improvement, like in Star Trek.

[digging]

It's my hope, but not my realistic expectation. I expect the ongoing class war to go hot.