The people at the top need AI to succeed to stay on top. The productivity gains promised can fight off inflation a little longer. Without it the fiat death spiral comes sooner and that is bad for reta...
That seems to be true even looking at the US (that's my perspective and many of the big players are here) economy. Most of our economy looks like an AI gamble to me. Which is why I figure we'll see the government prop them up or bail them out. Only this time I don't think it'll be so easy to go the bailout route. A lot has changed since 2008. We're probably in for a long, slow print default. I'm sure there are also some wet dreams of mass control and war baked in, but that's just par these days.