That's been the prediction with many technological updates, but here we are. This setup works just fine for the small group of fantastically wealthy and powerful people that dictate society's requirements for the rest of us.

I can't imagine anything changing our culture's insistence that personal responsibility in employment means zero responsibility for employers, policy makers, or society at large. That is, short of a large scale armed rebellion, or maybe mass unionization.

> short of a large scale armed rebellion, or maybe mass unionization

don't worry; AI drones will deal efficiently with both those forms of terrorism and malinformation

With all of the great AI-driven public opinion influencing tools? I can't imagine they'd need to TBH. To be clear, I think the likelihood of an armed rebellion is zero, and a successful one would be less than zero. While mass unionization may be more likely, as soon as it starts to significantly impact the top's bottom line across the board, we'd see a bunch of laws that cripple unions.

The other problem is that the powers that be won't need the masses for anything.

World War 3 is planned to take care of that.

Sounds messy. Simply tanking the birth rate will do?

COVID-25

They will not need jobs because AI corporations will give them everything they need just like that?

History is full of examples of people with power deciding that they like resources but don't need the people who live on top of them, and solving this problem by going on a killing spree.

Bear in mind that a substantial portion of people (perhaps 30%) don't feel satisfied unless they see someone else worse off. We are not an inherently egalitarian species.