You make a good point. It's not the tech that caused the problems but the greed behind how it's been used/applied that has caused most of the problems. Bernie and Joe did cover that point. I'm so glad I listened to the entire podcast, not that it provided many answers but it brought up a lot of very good questions and that's how you begin to solve the potential problems.

I hope you're right. Although I agree that morality and ethics are universally tied to consciousness, will these AIs truly be conscious in the way that the rest of the natural world is? I guess that's the trillion dollar question. If AI is truly benevolent and intellectually superior, then I'd welcome it to play a role in our decision-making and governance because humans, clearly, have a difficult time not giving into greed and corruption. In our sci-fi series we were writing for Netflix, HardFork, we had a benevolent AI that ran the entire government, along with a council of twelve elected officials. Devs uploaded an empathy code into it to allow it to work in harmony with humans.

There are just so many unknowns right now. I'm flabbergasted by the fact there's been no action-plan discussed regarding how to transition the job market into this new AI-age. I guess this is a prime example of how out-of-touch both our governments and the average citizen is. China now has entire shipyards and coal power plants almost fully operated by robots. This is what's coming everywhere. I'd say the jobs that require human drivers, factory, and warehouse workers will be the first who are impacted and I'd say we're no more than five years away from this.