[falcor84]

> Tech was a sector that made us think of humankind moving forward, possibly into some happy Star Trek like future where no one needed money and pie magically appeared in your wall if you said “Magic wall, pie me!”

Am I too naive in thinking that the AIs we're working on are a prerequisite step on the way towards Star Trek's post-scarcity future?

[dweinus]

No, whether this tech could lead to a post-scarcity future is debatable. The naive part is thinking that it will lead to it, given the way we use it and the power structures that profit from it.

[BizarroLand]

I personally feel like we're more on the path to the Altered Carbon-esque cyberpunk dystopia, only it will be clean and pretty and white and gleaming and only the "elect" will actually have full independent cognitive function.

Everyone else will be animal farm brainwashed into caring more about celebrities and sports and war and arguing online with strangers about pointless topics and politics while they eat their slop and work their meaningless jobs to keep the engine of civilization moving forward in a way that benefits the wealthiest, and AI will ultimately become the old school Andy Griffith cop that seems all nice and kind and helpful but will T-1000 sell us out to its true masters without remorse or hesitation no matter what.