I like to think about AGI in terms of the history of transportation.

On a spectrum, walking around carrying things on the far left, and interstellar trade to the right.

Imagine the creation of the wheel and hand cart! Such an advancement! We are really living it!

Few tens of thousands of years later we figure out how to domesticate animals and hook them up to the carts. Amazing!! OMG the efficiency, productivity, and trade that opens up!

Truly, we are living in future now!

Sail ships. Steam engines. Trains. Diesel. Automobiles. Planes.. We still don't even know how to accomplish interstellar travel.

I believe AI has just figured out hooking animals up to the cart.

I like to think of AI in terms of the history of transportation as well. My main concern, however, is that while the rest of the world has been uplifted by advances in transportation in the form of cars-- I still live in Detroit and get to see what the repercussions of depending on 3 companies (weird how that's the case for AI as well) for your entire infrastructure does when those companies decide they would like to do something else somewhere else.

I cannot trust any of these companies when they talk about things like UBI will come about. No it will not, you will pocket that money and what once was a great and bustling city will literally crumble into rubble while the people are forced to fend for themselves. What happens when they abandon a country?

The future is bright for AI, but I don't believe the future is bright for the population.