That’s the amount of economic value AI will have to deliver to justify all the investment

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      Might be… But then who’s going to pay those $6T to Anthropic and/or OpenAI when there is no longer an economy?

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        History has been consistent in showing that capitalism gives zero cares about long term consequences for short term profit.

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        I think it is non-manual labour that they want to replace. In their world, people will still have to earn money, but not with their brain or expertise but with their hands and/or bodies.

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          Well, Robotics is (allegedly) making big progress too. Have you seen those robot dogs replacing security guards, self-driving cars replacing human drivers, or the level of automation reported in Chinese car factories? Even warfare has changed, largely automating the once manual job of murdering your neighbors.

          But that aside, even if manual labor still exists in this future automation dystopia, if it’s all that’s left, the economy will still shrink considerably.

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      It is not going to though. And even if it was capable of that, it still wouldn’t provide them with anything near 6 trillions.