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They'd rather be the most power in a world of fewer people than sacrifice to save them. With AI adoption potentially enabling them to retain functionality at scale, with far fewer workers, they have even less incentive to sacrifice.
"Potentially." I snorted at this. "AI" is just VR, NFT, crypto. A scam to keep big tech from having to compete.
It doesn't matter what you think, it matters what they think. And they don't understand their own technology and it's limitations.
I use it everyday for work. It isn't a scam. Not all the promises will come true but it absolutely is and will displace workforces across information and analysis heavy roles. Its also very likely to see AI become a standard new interface for computer systems, whether we want it or not.
I suppose that might work, altho it would also introduce a tonne of instability in to global economies at all sorts of levels, with accompanying high risks of collapse, anarchy and whatever else. Even if those weren't a huge set of risks right there, global warming and ocean acidification are coming with a vengeance to make the surface of the planet largely uninhabitable and starved of O2, among other things.
IMO these billionaires are rapidly approaching the point at which they'll need to vanish with their peoples in to their elaborate bunkers. And who knows how that turns out for them over the years. (seems to me it could get ugly real quick)
A year or two ago there was an article from a high-class escort who was evidently a regular at some kinds of global billionaire get-togethers. She got to know the mindset of many of the attendees over time. She said that roughly half had some kind of personal solution in their minds, and the other (roughly) half felt discernibly hopeless. And even that wasn't enough to spur them to try to find solutions as a group, it seems.
Point is, each of them seems to consider themselves their own little kingdom in many ways, helpless or completely uninterested in addressing global threats.