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Re:Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positiv... by toomuchtodo on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @02:32PM (#48574648)
Superhuman abilities for the wealthy tech oligarchs, economic indentured servitude and slums for the rest of us.

Tens of millions of people in the US alone cannot obtain basic healthcare today, how would this outcome change for them because AI solved it? The only solid paths are regulation or prying the machine from the hands of those who hold it. GLP-1s are only widely available globally affordably because the patent expired, for example.

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Re:Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positiv... by jimbokun on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @03:37PM (#48575695)
Indentured servitude implies they still need us for something once they have superhuman robots doing their bidding.
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Re:Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positiv... by toomuchtodo on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @03:45PM (#48575827)
There are some grim desires these people have today they’d still have even with robots. I will not enumerate, out of decorum.
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