We are the precipice of an AI led dystopia. AI is an amazing human achievement and tool and has near limitless potential to help humanity. It is an amazing tool that has benefited me personally greatly. I personally think AI is great. However humans are not so great and historically pretty greedy. So many are rushing through the AI arms race not taking a second to think about the implications of this impending future. I myself work for a company that is building some amazing tools to help automate some really boring parts of a job. The marketed purpose of these tools is to let people focus on what is important and let AI do the dirty work. That instead of needing a team of 4 for this job you only need 2 now. And that this is a great thing. And by itself it is a great thing. However we live in a world where people's worth and ability to survive is so tightly coupled to the amount of value they bring the overall system that we are not ready for the case when AI is able to replace the majority of our jobs. What does a world look like when even just 50% of humanity is unemployed with no outlook of changing that. And that number will only grow. This will be a drastically different world and we are not prepared for it. We aren't even preparing for it and it will happen soon and it will happen fast. So what will this dystopia look like? Well my idealistic vision sees a world with more libraries, more shared resources, more community. It is either that or complete anarchy and chaos. Resources will be scare but if we pool them together I think we could make some amazing self sufficient communities. We live in a world of over independence from each other yet grossly over dependence on the system and consumerism. We don't all need our own TVs. We don't all need to survivalist homesteaders. We all have our own skills and we can all learn new ones and together I think we can make it. But only if we do it together. So yes, this dystopia will be a massive disruption, but if we can humble ourselves and ditch some of these useless societal norms and expectations we can still build good lives together.