Raw LLM Responses

I work in Knowledge management for IT, so I kind of get a big picture view of things by default. I think there are reasons you may be overly pessimistic, but also overly optimistic at the same time. First, let's be clear: The powerful are *terrified* of the commoners. UBI is being discussed to prevent torches and pitchforks, but so is AI with kill-decision authority. This is not an accident that they're being worked on at the same time. The second point is that properly deployed tech removes scarcity in the long term. We could be looking at a world where we do work, coming up with creative solutions to problems that AI presents to us, seeking greater efficiency. Some of it may be gamified, but it's still right there. The simple truth is, we have a lot of hope and a lot of danger in the same black box. We know it holds both, but we can't see how much of each. We also have a set of proverbial guns to our heads forcing something new, lest we die when our mistakes catch up to us. We will need to evolve, or we will go extinct. We don't have a lot of time to figure this out, but if we get it right we'll eventually have a beautiful future. If we get it wrong, we don't have a future. OP is right to be worried, but not right to be hopeless.