PALO ALTO, CA - With Silicon Valley boasting that artificial intelligence could replace millions of jobs around the world, currently laid-off workers have reported having more free time to form angry mobs dedicated to storming and torching the homes of the tech billionaires responsible.
Eventually they won’t even need them. Your smart fridge reported you discussing seditious conspiracy and your smart washer has noted you own a black hoodie, aka terrorist attire. Your smart vehicle has been remotely disabled, and an Amazon delivery drone has been rerouted to terminate you after its final delivery. Don’t bother trying to turn off the tracking device in your pocket, it still pings even when powered down and between Ring and Flock we can see you at all times anyway.
There still need to be people to go in and arrest them, and meat is cheaper than motors and hydraulics using resources that would otherwise remain unexploited.
All of that requires you have money. Which you don’t have anymore, because you don’t have a job that pays you. Unless the system changes radically, at some point enough people can’t even buy food and have only time in their hands. So what are they going to do?