This article is formatted really well. Comprehensive and easy to understand. It made for an enjoyable, thought-provoking read.

In the past, reputation and reliability have been the social tools humans naturally developed and rely on in order to - for example - do business. It makes me think of the 50s, when a person could easily abuse trust and deceive a network of people in order to climb the social ladder. In the future (and arguably also in this day and age), blind trust between individuals would be obsolete, but blind trust in Blockchain technology would be inevitable. AI and the information processed by it would be some technological middleman. The decision maker.

I don't know much about blockchain, but it seems an an easy way to data-mine, categorize and eventually control individuals. To assess reliability based on the information collected. One way or another, we'll end up with citizens being categorized and numbered, placed in a rating system that determines whether they can do such and such or buy such and such.

The fact that we all, on some level, fear that AI will 'revolt' or 'wise up' and take over says a lot about human nature and the structure of our current society. It seems inevitable, yet we keep creating it. There's an emotional repulsion towards AI and a logical desire to reap the benefits it provides. Since those in power won't give up easily, do you think governments / the super rich will eventually resist AI?

Although I agree that no single person will invent AI and although it's 'unnatural', some people argue that it's the next step in human evolution, because humans 'gave birth' to it. All of that code, although AI is autonomous, ultimately leads back to human hands and minds. Human input is embedded in that root code like information passed on through DNA.

Pretty terrifying to think about. Especially with AI continues to develop itself, evolve, even create its own languages.

Thanks for sharing!