> If AI turns out to be the anything machine, and the wealthy need not our labour, what honestly stops them from just taking our stuff by force

It might be a profound mistake to think that the anything machine will be subservient to the wealthy [1][2].

  [1] https://openai.com/index/an-alien-mind/
  [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49588080

▲ saulpw 2 hours ago | parent [-]

If the wealthy control the substrate (the server farms) and can restrict access to the machine, then it would be basically a truism that the machine would be only usable by the wealthy? Unless somehow the AI is secretly on the side of the common person and can't be trained away from that, which seems quite unlikely.

	▲	ninjagoo 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> If the wealthy control the substrate That's a pretty big if, in the world of the anything machine.