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Cockatello urges that society must get involved, advocate for safety measures, and politically push for safeguards that uphold democracy and prevent concentrations of AI control in a few hands.
The Promise of a Post-Scarcity World
Despite the risks, a positive vision exists: eliminating global poverty and enabling a society driven more by curiosity, creativity, and leisure than mere survival. Advances in AI could vastly increase economic productivity, transforming how humans live, work, and play.
Predicting the future, one expert suggests that once superintelligence is achieved, the pursuit of profit and basic needs might fade away, replaced by exploration, knowledge, and personal fulfillment.