Yes, when one group of people, a small minority of the population, controls the ability to produce food and violence, then we have a serious problem.

> One of these days if AGI ever does actually come about, we might very well have to go to war with them.

They arguably already exist in the form of very large corporations. Their lingering dependency on low-level human logic units is an implementation detail.

> One of these days if AGI ever does actually come about, we might very well have to go to war with them.

And the same conditions of material wealth that dictate traditional warfare will not be changed by the ChatGPT for Warlords subscription. This entire conversation is silly and predicated on beliefs that cannot be substantiated or delineated logically. You (and the rest of the AI preppers) are no different than the pious wasting their lives in fear awaiting the promised rapture.

Life goes on. One day I might have to fistfight that super-dolphin from Johnny Mnemonic but I don't spend much time worrying about it in a relative sense.

Like Jonny Depp in that movie.