The Importance of Functional Connection in AI Success

The main source of potential power to an AI system is the wages received, which may allow it to gain power in the long run. It seems quite plausible that AI systems at this stage will generally not receive wages,. They presumably do not need them to be motivated to do the work they were trained for. This means the intellectual outputs are mostly going to society. If there is AI more competent than humans, but not sufficiently more competent to take over the world, then it is likely to contribute to this stock of knowledge and affordances shared with humans.