RE: AI - the ultimate hubristic precipice?

"I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right".

I hadn't heard this one, thank you. It's a wise approach, perhaps, though can also serve as a painless placebo. I'm optimistic by nature, so I tend to lean in this direction as well. But also, I'd rather be pessimistic and prepared, than optimistic and fucked. I guess it's a pendulum, can't swing too far in either direction.

The thing that worries me the most will be those people who won't to know how to use all the free time and lack of purpose they will suddenly have on their hands.

oh also this. absolutely. it's something of a (terrifying) cliche to have retirees become depressed and lose purpose in films and so on. but lately, i think a lot about these kids, my brother's generation and even younger. to be robbed of that essential meaning-making moment of your life entirely. of course, a job isn't a meaning, you know i don't think like that, but it is a vector of purpose, of what value I bring into the world. One that's more accessible at a young age than perhaps complex relationships like marriage, parenthood, or other things that help shape your personal meaning.

I also don't trust that the sudden abundance will immediately trickle down to the masses—corporations won't willingly give up profit and will take time to adjust to this concept.

Second one. It's not that I so much think AI will "take over", but that I doubt the impulses of the gatekeepers.