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Once it stops making money.
With a couple niche exceptions, AI hasn't started making money. What it has done is attract venture capital investment.
Venture capitalists are driven by a fear of missing out on the next big thing. A billion dollar score pays for a thousand bad million dollar bets, and AI that lives up to the hype could be worth trillions. This is also why every existing tech company is scrambling to add an AI thing to its products even where it makes no sense.
My theory is that it will never stop making money because they want less people in society in general, it's a way of trying to kill people off without actually having to do it yourself. As the number of people shrinks due to poverty and being unable to feed themselves, basically mass homelessness, and only the elite few surviving, those elite few won't have to do anything because they already had tons of money, and now AI can do all the hard work that they were too proud to do before. So I think it'll always be profitable. Just not for everyone.
What you're saying makes no sense. People need to realise that those at the helm are actually as stupid or worse than the average joe. They are profoundly uneducated and just happened to be in the right social circles to reach power. This is especially true in the US. As for AI, someone thinks there's money to be made from AI so it's getting pumped. Same shit for crypto. What we really need is a French revolution in the US, but that will never happen because even the most destitute of US americans thinks they're a millionaire who just happens to be on a low luck slump, so they will never revolt against the elite that "they are a part of".
I wouldn't go that far, oligarchs (in the US or otherwise) are generally very intelligent, sophisticated (in the functional sense) and even hard working.
This is not meant to be some sort of justification, they are clearly corrupt, deeply dishonest and extremely malicious. That doesn't mean they should be underestimated or one should discount their capabilities.
This is a good point. Intelligent sociopaths do exist. "stupid" and "evil" are not synonyms.