Let's assume that the potential primary benefit of Artificial Intelligence comes to pass and that cures are found for many deadly diseases.
Does a society in which people get a generous annual income, and yet don't need to work, sound like a pleasant place to live?
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Iain M. Banks depicts something like that in his Culture novels. Humans have everything they need provided by the AI Minds and, so far as I can tell, spend their lives pursuing hobbies of various sorts. The Minds have their own goals and seem to treat humans more like pets than masters. But Banks envisions them as generally benevolent. I fear that the artificial superintelligence we are careening toward in real life may not be that way at all and would see the human race as, at best, a nuisance.
I share your concern. Over time, our helpful robots could regard us, at best, as pets.
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