Everyone has a clear path to profitability --- until you step back and expand your perspective.

The only way for AI to pay for itself is to eliminate workers and lots of them. And not just low paid workers but mostly higher paid knowledge workers.

In other words; success of AI means a shrinking economy --- fewer people with the disposable income to buy all the nonessential products built with the help of AI.

So AI is ultimately a self defeating economic loop. And this is not just my opinion --- many AI "leaders" acknowledge this and are starting to discuss things like subsistence level "universal basic income". Aka, wellfare for everyone --- until they realize that this means higher taxes on themselves.

https://www.businessinsider.com/universal-basic-income-ai?op...