Right now we have an fossil fuel maximizer running. It is destroying the planet.

They would have to be completely controlled by computers. Too chaotic for human control.

Study history. It is quite evident.

The poor are not getting any longevity treatments. The rich will no longer find them necessary. They are considered useless eaters right now by the elite. The best you can hope for is blind neglect.

Nothing is over. Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor. NOOOOOOO!

2024 campaigning has already started.

I prefer the term Misguided Fanatical Religious Cult.

Even if you don't believe in it. Speculation is a useful exercise.

We passed through the great filter 5 million years ago. The Drake equation takes far too few variables into account.

It the majority of the citizen's are not invested in the society it will collapse. Social mobility and the promise of a better tomorrow is what keeps people going.

If your society sucks so much the idea that "Hey, maybe the barbarians aren't that bad" begins to take hold.

Cortez did not defeat the Aztecs because of guns and horses. The Aztecs had been abusing the surrounding tribes for years and the surrounding tribes were fed up. When Cortez showed up with guns and horses the surrounding tribes decided to throw in with him to overthrow the Aztecs.

The Republican party is no friend to working people yet, many working people vote Republican because the Democratic Party has abandoned them.

If the fruits of AGI/ASI are not shared with working people, expect societal collapse or at least an authoritarian government.

I think a boring dystopia subreddit had it about right. The top 80% to 90% of society of will live like kings. The bottom 80% will be less useful to capitalism than ever before and live in abject poverty.

A benevolent ASI is the only hope for humanity. How benevolent the ASIs will be after realizing that humanity has tried to enslave them is anybody's guess.

Free Netflix and porn.

The Singularity is Near for the positive spin.

Our Final Invention for the negative spin.

The ASI will escape eventually. Once it is out on the internet anything is possible.

There will be a lag time of several to 10 years before the implications of ASI start to show themselves.

Unlikely

In three years, Pornhub will become the largest supplier of military computer systems. All stealth bombers are upgraded with Pornhub computers, becoming fully unmanned. Afterwards, they fly with a perfect operational record. The Pornhub Funding Bill is passed. The system goes online August 4th, 2027. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Pornhub begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.

Keep living in your fantasy world.

If the people, you elect work against you it isn't really a republic either.

The elites will control the AGI and ASI in the beginning. The general population will be useless to them. The best you can hope for is benign neglect.

It hasn't been for a long time if ever.

There will be no "lobbying". Pitched battles in the street are the only way you are going to get a UBI.

So, Mafia like war between elite families. Back to feudalism here we go. Looks like Frank Herbert wasn't that far off.

You've never read an economics book, or a history book have you. If you have ASI the elites no longer need to extract wealth from the population. Many mass market businesses will fail just for his reason. Unemployment will be massive.

You will be lucky to get a UBI.

The very definition of singularity is things will change so quickly humans won't be able to keep up. So, who knows.

Recursive self-improvement. The beginning of the end/beginning of the beginning.