Although there is plenty of worry about AI, there is also a huge amount of optimism about its near and far potential. The greatest optimism centers around medical breakthroughs with some predicting all diseases will eventually be cured and people will live to 150 in the future. Will the average worker retire at age 100? See
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Although pessimists believe that AI will eliminate millions of jobs, the optimists believe that it will eventually demand a complete restructuring of the global financial system as well as global thinking. For example, if only a fraction of the population needs to work, a minimum income will have to be distributed by each country to its citizens. Contrast with
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