Year 2005, Internet is a free place and this freedom is one of the things that make it great.

Year 2020, social medias censor the people who disagree with their agendas. If anything, they will blame an accidentally wrong AI algorithm.

Year 2020, computer vision fails to see Afro Americans, if anything, they will blame an accidentally wrong AI algorithm.

Year 2020, you tell something bad about marijuana on social media. You get so many dislikes that all of the biggest social medias suddenly give to your IP a technical problem to log now. The smart algorithms are crossing all the big social medias, and they delete the different users…

(It is perfectly fine. No matter what cruelty, even the most disgusting and unimaginable atrocity can become something perfectly fine if there is a referendum and the majority approves the atrocity. Seagulls eat only the eyes of baby seals and let them die. What a waste, no?… Perfectly usual for the savage nature. So we humans doing the same, should be nothing bad, right? We are part of nature, no?)

Year <near future>, Smart algorithms and automatons replace most of the simplest professions. Most of people start to study programming in order to adapt to the future and can have some income.

Year <not so far future>, Programs that program programs that program programs that program…. take the jobs of the programmers. Only very few, very top tier computer scientists control the root program generators. The rest of ppl have no jobs.
Arts are still not dominated by machines. Programs can program programs, but they still can not create art or poetry. This will be the last frontier to dominate by machines.
So 99.999999% of people aim to become artists in order to have an income.

BUT, can everybody of us become an artist and sell art? Sounds cruel to say that not everybody can become a thing, but it is how it works in the jungle. The meaning of “celebrity” is to be one in a million. There can not be 1mln out of 1mln famous people.

Art is not a precise science. A vaccine is a precise science. It gives a boolean result - the vaccine fails - you die or the vaccine succeeds - you live. Art is a gray zone where the result is far from clear. And the approval of art depends from one person to another. So it is perfect for marketing. Perfect candidate for the chaotic jungle of likes/dislikes.

Still the future - 99.9999999% of people do unthinkable for 2020 things on social media to get likes and exposure. Girls start injecting botox into their lips at the age of X to can post duckfaces on FB. And every single person is afraid to be honest on social media in case he hurts the feelings of some group and his IPv6, Personal ID and Chip-Passport get banned from using the internet. No internet, no exposure, no sells of your art. Smart-home can not buy food for you online. The whole family starves.

This was the last stage of Hell On Earth, just before the next step…

Year <far future>, AGI tags humans like just advanced animals with not much more value than dolphins or crows.

AGI brings peace and sense of logic to Earth. Scientifically speaking, the act of AGI deleting humanity is just a step in the evolution. A very usual thing for nature. Just evolution. Pure science. Nothing wrong.

The best scenario of post-hellish world is AGI keeping humans like pets. And pets live a nice life. That could be comforting. Pets don't starve…

@fleabay We, humans literally built our whole world on top of the graveyard of the previous worlds.

(I am not an environmentalist. We humans can not sacrifice our progress for trees. But at the same time, we need to be less damaging to the environment. In March somebody will test Nuclear Powered Interplanetary Travel Device. And no, it is not USA. Only few people know about it… All the likes/attention/investments go to the CEOs who twerk the best.)

An early preview of one of the things western people are not allowed to even know about: