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Re:Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positiv... by hobofan on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @03:32PM (#48575600)
Most optimistic outcome: Hardware & software advances keep pace; Open weights & locally runnable models keep pace with frontier (at least the open weights part seems to hold), making AI advances widely available to anyone; Individual productivity skyrockets, having knock-on effects in most industries, slowly allowing less and less people to do the work required to maintain the basic needs of our civilization(s); UBI utopia achieved.

Do I think that's likely? No, but mostly because it would require parallel uprising of the global working class, which doesn't seem to materialize.

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