Forum Post: The AI Catastrophe

Google AI on Adam Smith, the economist: 1776: "Argued that a free market, guided by the 'invisible hand' of self-interest, would lead to the greatest prosperity for society as a whole. ..."

2025: What will the invisible hand produce when each individual owner cuts costs by the use of AI management and AI Robotic production of every real thing that humans need to survive?

The ruling class owners and controllers will no longer need money to acquire material wealth or We the People to do the work of production and management. So they won't be worried about starving their worker/consumers. We will no longer be relevant or necessary to the owners that rule US.

If you are management, you can be replaced by AI tomorrow. Manual labor will take longer for the oligarchs to eliminate, because they'll still be needed in transition and to build the robots that replace them.

Management, Engineers, Scientists and other professionals often look down on the working class who do the physical labor that produces and distributes the material goods that feed, clothe and house the entire human race. They justify and propagandize their much greater income by professing the meme: "We're much harder to replace." Now comes AI and the table is flipped. They'll be first and most easily replaced.

It's time to eschew support for Republicans who you've voted for because their policies uphold your privilege and greater income, if you're a professional, and because they serve you're bigotry if you're in the 35-40% of workers that are profoundly deluded. We all need to ally ourselves with the unions that have all but ceased to exist since the Reagan administration's crackdown.

We must attempt to awaken the MAGA base of deluded and disaffected workers who support our common destruction by the ultra-wealthy ruling class. If we let AI expand to the point that AI robots can produce the necessary material goods, 99% of the present population will become irrelevant and our existence no longer necessary to provide for the rulers.

Of course the extinction of all but the ruling elite classes will solve the environmental problems. And extinction for most of US will be certain if we continue to trust Adam Smith's "invisible hand." It's guiding US to a bad end.

There is no predictable timeline for these changes. This morning [10/22/2025] I heard that Amazon is installing robots in their "fulfillment" facilities and expects to save $10 billion/year. Others are following suit. Sadly, no matter how long or not that we have to ponder the inevitable, the perpetual distractions will assure that most of us never see it coming.