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Comment by sedan_baklazhan

5 hours ago

Right. And this unemployment will also cascade, because small businesses will go bankrupt after loosing their customers.

Right now, a hiccup in Chinese production of a certain IC may make buying toilet paper harder in Germany! It’s naive to think that such drastic changes (mass unemployment) will not be extremely turbulent (to put it mildly).

  • Exactly. And still: a. AI companies are openly promoting such a scenario; b. US government stares at that superintelligence/s goal quite happily, doing nothing.