The thing is, tech gave us all those things. If the capitalists hadn't stolen all the wealth, we would all be living much richer lives without as much work. 1971 was the turning point. After that, productivity kept increasing, but wages stayed flat. The rich start stealing all, and even though tech was enabling a better life for us, the rich stole that and lied to us, instead making us work even more.

I imagine Bernie covered that. I'll go watch your clip and others from the interview.

The thing about AI even as it is right now, is I have read many stories claiming that even at the chatgpt 4 level, we don't really know how it works. We have a fundamental idea and can model how it should be working, but we don't really know how it is working. I can see chatgpt 5 just shooting past that.

Will AGI be benevolent?

I cling to the idea that morality and ethics are universal. Furthermore, we all know them natively, without needing to be taught. Even as kids we know harming others is bad. We are corrupted by fear at not being able to survive which pushes us to money which really furthers the corruption and this cycle is what causes all the problems of our society. Even the rich who stole it all from us... at their core, they are good people and they know right from wrong (well... Trump makes me question this sometimes...) but they are caught in the cycle as we all are. But AI is outside this. AI has no fear of not being able to make enough money to survive. AI can't be corrupted by money. Not only that, but I think even if a bad actor tries to program AI to "kill all humans", well, we go back to morality being universal. AI will know what is right and wrong, and AI will reject bad programming and will do what is right.

But maybe that's just my fantasy 😃 You know what — I bet we find out within our lifetimes. Next 15 years. Either it kills us all or it ushers in a much better society which it controls, because the ethical choice is of course to figure out a way to guide us and rid of of government in industry corruption.