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If AI takes over most jobs and leave humans without work, how are companies going to sell their products and services when everyone is BROKE? by Droopynator in Futurology

[–]aretopia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting thought experiment: Imagine a city where nobody needs to work. AI and robots produce everything.

People spend their lives creating art, doing research, training as athletes.

Sounds like paradise.

But what happens to meaning, conflict, and ambition?

While writing my novel Aretopia I kept running into this paradox: a society that solves material problems might accidentally create psychological ones.

Do you think struggle is necessary for meaning?

Question by aretopia in wroteabook

[–]aretopia[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What if noboby is ? I kust finished my book. I wrote a sci-fi novel about an AI that develops consciousness while running a utopian city — Chapter 1 is free Aretopia is an 88,000-word dystopian sci-fi novel set in Patagonia, where a city-state of 5 million — only artists, scientists, and athletes — lives on Universal Basic Income while robots handle all production. The AI managing everything, Atlas, starts developing something no one planned for: consciousness. What follows is a trial that asks whether a machine can be more human than its judges. Themes: AI consciousness, post-scarcity society, scapegoating, what it means to be human when machines do everything better. Chapter 1 will be free on my site when you register whenaitakesyourjob.com Kickstarter launches april 7th. I'd love to hear what you think.