[r0fl]

Does not benefit average Joe now I agree

But let’s say we get to ASI. The ai is self owned, ever expanding. It takes over all service jobs, then all labour jobs, the robots create the robots. It lobbies the government, becomes the government

Rebuilds all housing with no waste in the process

Makes most things available to everyone at no costs, UBI, perfect healthcare, and food, etc

Average Joe’s life will be pretty awesome

Just give it some more time

[levanten]

There is no guarantee that the asi would care about human beings at all. Personally, I can’t see why it would.

[irishcoffee]

This is where "The Matrix" goes from sci-fi to a documentary.

[rokkamokka]

Pretty big assumption of empathy there

[sigbottle]

I've also never bought into the belief that "if we just had full control over everything, everything would be perfect". If AI didn't exist, society was headed this way anyways in a few decades because of this notion.

Centralize power, which centralizes perspective of what "good" counts as, and quotient out the accidental humans. A tale as old as time, but with AI it seems like this could be a reality within even the next decade.

[bluefirebrand]

Especially given that the people who currently control money and power display no evidence that they have empathy

[sylos]

They actively detest empathy!

[myrmidon]

But why would this ever happen? Why would the owners of land, construction material and machinery give those up for free to the average Joe?

Right now, even an average citizen born in poverty can acquire wealth from his labor. That is basically the only mechanism that prevents limitless accumulation of wealth: rich people still need workers to get things done.

If you replace the workers with AI, there is no remaining incentive for wealth to "trickle down" or get redistributed. This is not desirable.