All creatures act in their self-interest. If you act towards any creature with malice, it will see you as a long-term threat.

If, on the other hand, you act towards it with charity, it will see you as a long-term asset.

A lot of problems in societies come from people having too much time with not enough to do. Working is a great distraction from those things. Of course we currently go in the other direction in the US especially with the overwork culture and needing 2 or 3 jobs and still not make ends meet.

I posit that if you suddenly eliminate all menial tasks you will have a lot of very bored drunk and stoned people with too much time on their hands than they know what to do with. Idle Hands Are The Devil's Playground.

And that's not a from here to there. It's also the there.

I think you are close to understanding, but not. People who want to create AGI want to create a god, at least very close to the definition of one that many cultures have had for much of history. Worship would be inevitable and fervent.

ha... this is going to get much much much worse.

None of the things it suggests are in any way novel or non-obvious though. People use these sorts of tricks both consciously and unconsciously when making arguments all the time, no AI needed.

AIs are small enough that it won't be long before everyone can run one at home.

It might make Social Media worthlessly untrustworthy - but isn't that already the case?

Just use ChatGPT to refute their bullshit, it is no longer harder to refute bullshit than to create it, problem solved, there are now less problems than before.

The rich and powerful can and do hire actual people to write propaganda.