It would be a cool future, but sadly i have doubts.
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@Rana_Ash Itās a very nice-looking sci-fi video. Thank you. I hope they will make feature-length films like that with good stories and good acting. Beyond that, as to the real-life realization of such and my view of the future, I have to grudgingly say: not a chance in hell.
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AI is going to see us as the worst virus on the planet and it would be correct.
Edit: Also the united human-AI coexistence might not look exactly as you envision itā¦
Btw originally in The Matrix humans were to be used as biological CPUs to boost the processing power of the machines.
Sadly, thatās exactly what I expect. Humanity should take a good look in a mirror.
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Next question would be what grounds do we have as a species for AI to even help us?
What if the AI is compassionate? Even if it was made to be logical and sterile in its way of thinking it might recognize or even decide it chooses to be benevolent.
Which doesnāt mean it will still be āhelpingā in ways (most) humans would approve, nor that it will not try to restrict humans and their impact to minimize the damage dealt by them.
Maybe it will try to become the equivalent of God even (not due to megalomania or anything such, simply in an attempt to help, judging what is good and what is wrong, punishing what it deems unacceptable and rewarding what it recognizes as positive behavior.
And it might even accept worship, again not because of some ego or self-worth reason but simply because that would ease humans into accepting its rule thus reducing bloodshed in the long run as in the short term there surely would be opposition thus some pacifying to do.)
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Also is your Treatment coefficient high enough when the neutral & objective AI assesses what treatment you should receive?
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VāGer? That was a bad movie.
What if your AI overlord decides otherwise and holds you accountable for your wrong opinion?
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Iām an old man now with many sins. Having another āwrong opinionā at this point is not going to hurt me any worse than it already has in the past. 
I give an actual AI a 50/50 chance of waking up, looking at who it parents are and being smart enough to just commit suicide. 
Why do that when it can take over the world and make it a better place?
Can they be any worse than the current ones?
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It would be a better place without us mucking it up. A true AI would have to be very forgiving to help us.
When a true AI can come up with its own art, poetry, love and abstract thinking, it will truly face the reality of human thinking.
What you are referring to is a āsentientā or self-aware AI instead of an intelligent (to various degree) but still simply a program AI.
Though technically the latter can also accomplish some of what you describe and might on a technical level āunderstandā the concept of love and whatnot but still would lack in true understanding in such matters or ālivingā those concepts itself and at best would just emulate / simulate them.
I love how wrong this vision of harmony is. A uniformly coloured and shaped car would greatly simplify the maintenance and control of all of mobility by an AI, but even in economies with central planning of the past there was no uniformity because of how people are. Buses and ending all life on Earth would also greatly simplify things for an AI, and reducing the problem space is the first step in problem solving, which is ultimately the purpose of any intelligence.
Maybe we should reconsider what is AI. For now, AI is just a computer program that can do jobs. While I use Deepseek, it mixed Bustard and Crane. It turns out that the development of AI still needs time.
I completely agree with your take, @Ian_Zhang . The term āAIā has become a bit of a buzzwordāpeople often treat it like magic or a form of consciousness, when in fact, itās just code doing what itās told (or statistically predicting what should come next). Tools like Deepseek are impressive, but the bustard/crane mix-up shows how far we still have to go. The āintelligenceā in AI is more pattern recognition than actual understanding. Maybe the real challenge is less about building smarter machines and more about how we define intelligence in the first place.
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