In the recent Castle Chronicle, our analyst @noveleader made the case on the Multipolar Trap that AI will face in the near future and how the AI benefit curve might look like. Today in the world, we witness multiple problems such as Climate Change, Economic Inequality, and so much more. All of these problems, to some extent, exemplify the Multipolar Trap. In a multipolar trap, the interests of a few individuals or the preference for short-term gains collectively harm society. At some point in the future, AI will go through the Multipolar Trap, and in some contexts, it is still going through it. AI at this stage helps individuals ease their work, maybe speed it up, or reduce the workload altogether, but these systems are made to replace those same individuals. We all have read the @Citrini7 Article on the Global Intelligence Crisis, which is the point when the Multipolar Trap reaches one of its extreme points, where the gains of a few individuals would be prioritised with the use of AI, and everyone else will be pushed to do the work they never wanted to do, bringing a crisis. The AI situation is a little bit different because, at some point, it might look like companies are putting nails in their own coffin, as the market will eventually blow up with less purchasing power, lower stock prices, because no one can afford to buy, and the same flows that AI helped to streamline become worthless. Being on any side of this spectrum doesn’t look good unless you are sitting on a lot of cash, holding a glass of champagne in one hand, and watching the world burn. If you come in the latter category, that’s the peak of the Multipolar Trap, where only a few key individuals are benefiting. A large part of the population will rely on savings, UBI, and any remaining blue-collar jobs. Additionally, the governments around the world will tend to use AI for mass surveillance, which you would have to accept because, well, you are in one way or another dependent on them. You will accept it with a smile on your face, and control of humanity and its behavioural analysis will be given into a few hands. That’s another extreme concave point in the multipolar trap. I also believe that cypherpunk and privacy-enabled solutions (blockchains) will become an important part of history going forward, as a portion of the population will adopt the tech more deeply. At the end, I just want to say there is nothing that could stop all of this from coming. I am not sure how or when all of this will actually become a reality, and I hope every day that it doesn’t. We cover different dynamics across crypto and AI in our free newsletter. Join using the link below (unless you hate free research)!