Consciousness is an evolutionary side bar. If anything, our current success with AI is decoupling intelligence from consciousness. I doubt superinteligence will be conscious or have any use for consciousness. I suspect modern day humans are the last conscious life forms.

Those timeline predictions, like almost all of Kurzweil’s and Kaku’s time predictions, were wrong. They both have a very poor track record regarding timeline predictions on almost anything, so poor that we should probably pay them no mind any longer.

However, both Kurzweil and Kaku (and others) have still made many plausible predictions about what might occur with probability - it’s just (all evidence suggests) that they have no more idea when those things will occur than you do.

It’s a good assumption to make though. Why would it have any sentimentality at all?

10 years from now AI will render all forms of work by humans utterly unecessary. Not just labour and drivers. Doctors, professionals, social workers, graphic designers, soldiers, judges, psychologists, even writers and scientists, creative workers, will all be worse at their jobs than an AI. We will literally have nothing to do but play, and if we play competitively against AI players we will lose.

There are glimmers of excitement in this future but mostly it horrifies me.

It’s a joke asshole, sort of.

But since you challenged the idea (I think, it’s not really clear what you’re angry about), if you think the widespread adoption of AI in society is going to lessen, not worsen, social and economic inequality, you’re a fucking stupid jackass. And if you don’t care, you’re a piece of shit.

The harvested bodies of the lower class.