[spense]

how we handle ai will dramatically shape our future.

if you consider many of the great post-ai civilizations in sci-fi (matrix, foundation, dune, culture, blade runner, etc.), they're all shaped by the consequences of ai:

   - matrix: ai won and enslaved humans. 
   - foundation: humans won and a totalitarian empire banned ai, leading to the inevitable fall of trantor bc nobody could understand the whole system. 
   - dune: humans won (butlerian jihad) and ai was banned by the great houses, which led to the rise of mentats. 
   - culture series: benign ai (minds) run the utopian civilization according to western values.

i'm a also fan of the hyperion cantos where ai and humans found a mutually beneficial balance of power.

which future would you prefer?

[duskwuff]

> i'm a also fan of the hyperion cantos where ai and humans found a mutually beneficial balance of power.

How much of the series did you read? The Fall of Hyperion makes it quite clear that the Core did not actually have humanity's best interests in mind.

[snovv_crash]

Polity follows in the footsteps of Culture, with a few more shades of gray thrown in.

[globular-toast]

If I remember correctly, in Foundation they ended up heavily manipulated by a benign AI even if they thought they banned it.

[dochtman]

Although at the very end that AI gave up control in favor of some kind of shared consciousness approach.