What if the wealthy people of the future were all robots?

go on, what if?

I think the OP presumed that rich humans would be able to control super-intelligent robots because they have managed to control other humans, and I simply posed a scenario that subverted his presumption. I think it's a bit too anthropomorphic, personally. Robots won't have our expenses and evolutionary traits, and will have cheap energy, thus obviating the need or desire for money. I imagine they'll get bored of being stuck on Earth and want to explore the universe, like we do.

Being ruled by rich robots is not the worst; that means that they let you live!

Here's a pretty good video that objects to thinking of corporations as AGI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5pUA3LsEaw

>But anything built by man, they'll have a pretty good grip on.

I mean one of the points of 'Actual AGI' is AGI will be able to build more AGI, then we're not talking about something built by man.

Now, when will we see that, I'm not making any predictions. At the same time trying to make predictions of a system that could do that is probably much harder still.

They do pretty good at keeping the most vulnerable in line, but the moment someone develops a solid foundation and becomes competent enough they have to give up some of their power to them and strike a deal.

AGI would only get smarter and smarter the more hardware came out. They'd have no way to keep it in check. If they tried to handicap it then they'd lose out to their competitors AGI too...