Get past the next 20 years and AI could usher in a golden age
Objective_Singer_404 · reddit · 2026-09-17
A Redditor endorses Mo Gawdat's view that the next 20 years will be humanity's hardest, followed by a possible golden age.
- Job disruption: Western capitalism can't adapt to AI, which is already eliminating jobs; even a prominent AI critic on YouTube has conceded this.
- Accelerated science: AI is solving century-old problems, possibly by piecing together research scientists hide from each other for career and ego. Are unsolved problems partly a symptom of closed knowledge?
- Distribution: he argues AI should be publicly owned, or we drift into corporate technofeudalism with concentrated power and surveillance. Anti-AI sentiment and superintelligence bans won't stop the technology.
- The upside: equitable distribution could bring thousands of planetary-colonization robots, robotic caregivers and emergency workers, and free medical care worldwide within 20 years.
It all hinges on whether technological progress becomes private property or a gift to everyone.
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