 Which is the most likely social consequence of AIs?
The current dominant political and economic ideologies, along with growing isolationist sentiment, runs contrary to the bipartisan, collaborative approaches needed to solve global issues like climate change. With AI, that has been the case so far; although not on the same scale. AI companies, and in particular the big tech companies, are very concerned that this won't go like climate change, but rather it will go like GMOs: that people will have a gut reaction to this technology as soon as the first great swathe of job losses take hold. And that a broad buy-in by society into some kind of vision of the future in which this technology plays a role is required, if a dangerous – or to them dangerous – counteraction is to be avoided. One of the dominant narratives around not only AI but technology and automation more generally is that we, as humans, are at the mercy of technological progress. There can be a bit of a conflict between being impacted by what's happening and having some sort of control over what we want to happen. But that's different when we consider ourselves at a level of a society, as a polis [city state], or as an international community. One of the problems with intervention, generally, is that we cannot control the course of events. The reality is, societies are much too complex for us to be able to shape them in any very specific way, as plenty of ideologies and political movements have found to their cost.
 Over-reliance on technology might cause some loss of valuable intuition from educated people
 The AI developers will be able to shape societal structures as they see fit  There will be an overwhelming amount of regulation that will add control to people's lives  Over-reliance on technology might cause some loss of valuable intuition from educated people  There will be no jobs left for humans to complete if AIs continue developing