Artificial intelligence, a destructive goodie?

A.I. has immersed in our everyday life with or without our awareness. Many jobs used to be done by human is now handled by computers. People see a more efficient way doing things. For example, auto spell check corrects typos and even anticipates the next words that greatly increases typing efficiency. The success of search engines are largely attributed to the employment of this technology. Most of the people, except those their jobs were replaced by A.I., embraces the convenience provided by this goodie.

However, in my earlier post myth on A.I. I am quite skeptical on this technology in the long run. It is true A.I. did bring us a lot of benefits that basically one is impossible to live without it now. The immediate drawback is jobs replaced while the ultimate concern is whether A.I., when combined with robots, will eventually become the master of human being. However, it seems there is an intermediate threat to the common folks as well.

If one agrees the concept in my post salarymen slaves that the world is factually governed by the few super rich families and most of the people in this world is only free ranged slaves to create wealth for these Families. When A.I. and robotic technology are so sophisticated that it can do most jobs at  present done by people then do these super rich families still need to keep so many slaves? In their eyes  slaves are nothing but tool only. Their existence serves only one purpose, ie., to work and produce value for them because so far most of the productive functions must still be carried out by human. It is something like why farmers rear milk cows but if one day milk can be manufactured without cows at all in more economical way then there is no reason to waste resources to keep them.

Just imagine in the days when doctors, composers, cooks, pilots...etc are no longer necessary. Let alone those less skillful workers. 90% of the world population becomes dispensable. There are only two categories of people still find their places in the world. The first one is of course the super rich families who are the true governors of the world while the another one is the super smart brains in my post new class of illiteracy whom are needed to maintain or further develop the A.I./robotic technology. The rest of the world population will become burden rather than assets (for wealth production). After all they still need to be fed even when they are of no value any more. Meanwhile the huge world population is one of the reasons attributed to the world pollution. On the other hand the super rich families and these smart brains can enjoy much more per capita natural resources when the dispensable population is eliminated. Isn't it a big temptation on such move?

Watch out! folks!