Raw LLM Responses

There has to be a balance point though. The majority of the these AI doom videos miss an important point. AI firms don't create AI technology and AI agents in a vacuum - they need to sell those services to their own customers. Who are those customers? Manufacturers and service providers. And who does these firms rely on for revenue? Day to day customers with an income. If you choke the job market to the point past the great depression, no one is buying anything - no houses, no products, no iPhones, no cars, probably not even utilities. This drives down the revenue for the Manufacturers and the service providers - who will have to inevitably cut back on their operational costs - which means less investment in AI (even though they are cheap), creating a vicious (and speculative) downward spiral . That's not even considering that full automation of certain processes is simply not feasible due to prohibitive costs or safety issues. The other point to note is that full AI automating your entire business makes you incredibly vulnerable to grid failure: Cyber attack / natural disaster knocking out the electricity or internet = No production. AIs could be tricked into divulging your own data to nefarious 3rd parties or your competitors. So yes, while many jobs are at risk, the scenario of full AI replacement doesn't make sense in the long run. If you really want to go down the rabbit hole, and assume the worst case scenario happens, then I predict the following: - Population will crash <50%, because there's simply no point to having children in a world where they are not needed or due to economic pressures (this is already happening globally). - The majority of the population will return to a self sufficient and agrarian alterative lifestyle, with crypto currency and bartering being used as trade (I've already seen these types of communes popup). - The elites will live in this segregated, and highly inbred (metaphorically and literally) environment and probably long terms take each other out because to them, wealth is a zero sum game (see nobility for most of history). You have to remember, this worst case scenario end point (power and control of impoverished masses by an obsceenly rich minority group) happened several times throughout history under feudalism & communism - and in both cases it collapsed either due to mass unrest or due to a major external disruptive event (in the case of feudalism it was the black plague and the renaissance), and in both cases those systems were violently oppressive - much more than the people would be will to tolerate today. Now we're experiencing the rise of technologically enhanced plutocracy, which in time will also fail. This type of population and economical contraction will inevitably be the death of the elites, because without a population to sustain them and their consumer-centric business model, the whole house of card collapses.