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by staunton 987 days ago
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.

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