[svachalek]

What does further progress get us? Mass unemployment? Extinction? Pick your dark future science fiction?

The happy ending where we're all living in a garden of eden cared for by benevolent AI is hardly worth considering when you look at the cast of characters who are in charge of the world right now.

[philipallstar]

I don't think those are the only two options. The most likely option is: AI does what self-driving cars have done, which is to say, get so far and no further.