> If AI lives up to the hype, it's a portent of how things will feel to the common man.

This hype scenario would be the biggest bust of all for Ai. Without jobs or money then there is nobody to pay Ai to do all the things that it can do, it the power and compute it needs to function will be worth $0.

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bratbag 10 hours ago | parent [-]

Or the value of everything non ai drops to zero, which makes the value of ai infinite by comparison.

	▲	numpad0 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Either ways it'll be the end of the USD as we know it. But then again such fantasy situations had been "predicted" numerous times and never once came to be a reality.