alt Hacker NewsSociety's elites have forgotten that civil institutions exist to be an alternative to resolving disputes through violence. If they completely bend those institutions to their will and leave the common people out in the cold, the result isn't acquiescence, it's revolt.
I, too, worry that they're going to rediscover this the hard way at some point.
Shouldn't this revolution be planned for sooner than later. I mean, after the billionaires have robot armies..
I always assumed that this was the end goal of the AI. It's not for normal people, it's for the super wealthy to magnify their power, both economically and physically.