What Happens When Nothing Depends on Us?
Bilal KhanImagine AGI is achieved and alignment is solved. AI can now do almost everything. Only a handful of tasks still require humans, and very few people get to do them. What does everyone else do? Maybe you can play games, travel, climb mountains, or spend time on hobbies. But none of it is needed. Whether you succeed or fail changes very little. For most of history, people have had something to work toward because their effort mattered. They could build something, discover something, solve a problem, or become useful to others. What happens when there is almost nothing left for humans to contribute? What do you strive for when nothing important depends on you anymore?