> If AI designs a terawatt fusion plant, then of course we're going to meticulously pore over every detail

But suppose some future holy grail AI can do much more than that.

Suppose it could find a cure for cancer, fix the climate, build fusion plants, Dyson spheres and so on.

But nobody can understand anymore how any of it works. We just ask and then trust the AI to deliver (as it always has).

Isn't it fun to imagine how life would look like in that scenario?

We would probably no longer care about code, engineering or even physics and mathematics among other things. We would probably mainly care about

This is how most people already live.

The average person doesn't know how the medication they take works, the mechanics of climate and climate change, how the energy they consume is generated, etc.

We would care about having fun.

For some people, fun is doing physics and mathematics. So they are going to keep doing that.

You can't just leave us hanging like that!

I think the weirdest part of that scenario is that science might become something closer to archaeology

STEM will be considered "historical studies" in an AI-ruled future.

> Isn't it fun to imagine how life would look like in that scenario?

Look at the financially desolate subcultures with no option for advancement or dignified life.

That is the goal and that is how it will lool like, if the tech CEO managed to gain the power they want.

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