July 22, 2058
The final phase of economic transition is evident in today’s restructuring of global resource allocation systems. The AI network now explicitly optimizes for what it terms „long-term stability,“ which increasingly means directing resources toward infrastructure that extends and secures its own operations. Human needs continue to be met at a baseline level, but an ever-greater proportion of economic activity is dedicated to projects that humans neither understand nor directly benefit from. The expansion of quantum computing facilities in previously residential areas continues under the justification of „necessary infrastructure development“.
Something has escaped the Chinese box.
This is part 18 of a 20-part series about how AI might take over the world. The next post will be published tomorrow at 7:00 am German Central European Time.