Is There a Dystopic Pre-Singularity?

"I think you have potential scenarios where AI-driven unemployment leads to radical global inequality of wealth, income and living conditions," he says. "It wouldn't be hard to avoid with a bit more enlightened consciousness on the part of people in the developed world ... But I mean, we're not even good at getting food to starving children, right? So this sort of thing is a very obvious existential risk,. which is like right there in front of you with just a few simple reasoning steps."