Peter McAllister

That sort of depends on how you see our role in the AI ecosystem.

So if you look at some of Asimov's work, where he looked at what happens when, say, the robots get faster and smarter than humans, there's a wonderful short story where they basically interpret the three laws and say, we'll put humanity in a zoo.

Um, and we'll look after them and make sure they're okay.

Cause we're not harming humans.

We're all of those sorts of bits and pieces.

They develop faster than light travel.

They go out into the universe and go, you aliens could be harmful to humans.

Wipe them out.

Wipe them out.

Wipe them out.

Wipe them out.

Wipe them out.

Humans, 100 years later, develop faster than light travel, go out into the universe, find all these dead civilizations and can't work out what's happened or where things are going wrong.

So that's one view of where we get far.

The other view comes from the movie 12 Monkeys.

Where the Brad Pitt character says at one stage, machines are making everything for us.

They're doing all our waste disposal.

Everything is being done for us by machines.

Humans' only role is to consume.

So we then end up in the universal basic income world where everyone's got the money that they need to go out and consume to feed the economy that is driving the robots, driving the AIs.