Comment by everyday7732
5 hours ago
You're assuming a human economy, where raw resources and land are owned by humans and industry requires an human input and labour.
If these things are not true, then humans will not have the purchasing power, and AI driven organisations will be extracting resources, buying land and manufacturing products (probably yet more data centers) for other AI driven organisations, with labour performed by robots. Humans are pushed out of the market as they struggle to compete for the same basic resources.
What use does an AI and robots have for all those resources?
Most of our economy is powered by human consumption, humans making things to sell to other humans, that then either transform it further and sell it to other humans, or consume it directly. I don’t think an AI needs to buy millions of iPhones a year, or consume millions of metric tons of grain each year, or buy luxury cars so they can show them off to their AI friends.
At best an AI might use all those resources to build out further compute and expand its own capabilities. But at that point nobody should be worrying about competing in the labour market, they should be worried about AI making our planet unliveable for carbon based life.
> What use does an AI and robots have for all those resources?
Converting the universe to computronium or something maybe?
Maybe there will be different varieties of AI competing on who gets to be credited as the computronium's creator!
And then, AI made from computronium competing against other AI to control all of the computronium!
Maybe these are just the details of the heat death of the universe?
What is an LLM going to do with food, clothes, diapers etc? The idea doesn't really make sense.