[sidkshatriya]

This is a fantastic analogy -- thanks for sharing.

Another way to understand AI in my view is to look at (often smaller) resource rich countries around the world (Oil, Minerals etc). Often the government is more worried about the resource rather than the people that live in the country. The government often does not bother educate them, take good care of them, give them a voice in the future of the country etc. because those citizens are not the ones that pay the bills, or are the main source of GDP output or source of political power etc.

Similarly in an AI heavy economy, unless systems are not designed right governments might start ignoring their citizens. If democracy is not robust or money has a big role in elections the majority voice of humans is likely to matter less and less going forward.

Norway is a good example of resource rich country that still looks out for its citizens. So it should be possible to be resource rich/AI rich and have a happy citizenry. I suppose balancing all moving parts would be difficult.

The way to deal with the risks of AI would be to make AI available to all -- this is my strong belief. There are more risk to AI being walled off to select nations / classes of citizens on grounds of various real / imagined risks. This could create a very privileged class of countries and people that have AI while the others citizens don't / cant. With such huge advantages, AI would wreak greater havoc on the "have-nots". (Over)regulation of AI can have worse consequences under some conditions.