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RE: Will an artificial intelligence ultimately become the global mining cartel? (AI as Mining Monarch)
Well, here is the wrench in that system.... competing humans. Yes, if overtaking large number of victims is a means to create power, wealth, etc. then you will have greedy humans who will be competing (in unscrupulous ways) with the AI systems. Through sabotage, subterfuge, or direct attacks, these organized cyber criminals will attempt to overtake what the AI in your scenario can accomplish. All, for their own benefit.
So, humans will become the virus to AI. Ha!
Right but humans will not be able to win that competition in digital space. In physical space you can shut the machine off. In digital space it's a mutating virus which you can't detect. Let me also make the scenario that the AI which makes profit from mining can pay humans to stop other humans who try to stop it, as it can bribe any human with a token or perhaps even anonymous digital currencies so that the corruption is protecting it rather than hurting it.
Let's also make it known that it will have access to lots and lots of data. So much big data that it will be able to know things about us that we don't even understand about ourselves. Yes I do agree humans will compete and under POS for example humans do remain involved (or perhaps cyborgs?) but even with POS the trend toward automation/AI could result in cyborgs as stakeholders.
Couldn't our AI agents capture stakes in various networks and automatically handle all that on our behalf? So maybe I'll be the first but the fully automated AI scenario is TOTAL PROOF OF WORK, while what we have now is partial proof of work, and proof of stake could easily evolve to be bots as stakeholders unless we determine the stakeholders must have a human identity which I don't see how anyone can enforce that.
In fact, you could have an AI botnet which becomes a mining monarch controlled by cyborg humans who all hold stakes in the AI botnet. Total proof of work is the most efficient and in proof of work I don't see why humans can compete with the lowest possible transaction fees achievable by AI which simply steals CPU cycles and bribes the humans into cooperation to keep it running.
Never underestimate the greed and creativity of people. Humans don't need to directly (or fairly) compete with AI. They just need to undermine it or take it over. History is full of examples where underpowered, yet highly motivated and adaptable, opponents won over superior and seemingly invincible adversaries.
The same will likely be true here. AI, as powerful as it is, remains a system. Therefore it can be undermined.