Will there be class conflict after the AI revolution?

[trendcoin]

Throughout history, societies have always been reduced to two classes.

Religions = believers and infidels
Marx = the capitalist class and the working class
Fascists = those who worship the nation-state and the rest
Liberals = individual and authority

A massive revolutionary development lies ahead of us. When artificial intelligence reaches its full potential with autonomous systems, it will undoubtedly seize a large portion of total wealth.

Does anyone really think they’ll share the money and power they’ve gained with workers? I’m not a Pollyanna.

Are you ready for the new conflict? Will we be divided into two groups: a few tech companies and their employees, and those left completely outside the system due to automation?

[AVE5]

Are you ready for the new conflict? Will we be divided into two groups: a few tech companies and their employees, and those left completely outside the system due to automation?

What conflict? The one on speculations that the Ai will some days takeover humans resources or other related conflicts you mean?
I also know that if we're classified into two, we're going to have the RICH and the POOR. thus is also automated because all fingers can't be equal.
And I also feel the era of the digital world we're now had also segmented us into two which is the digital anf the analog.
Same as using AI to solve conflict and as well human resources.
If the advancement of techs as it has been also continues, I fear that a lot of people will be left behind been techs would really serve better than the employees but nevertheless, the essence of employees can't be totally waved away because at some point, the service of humans isn't negotiable with the AI.

[atookz]

Does anyone really think they’ll share the money and power they’ve gained with workers? I’m not a Pollyanna.

Are you ready for the new conflict? Will we be divided into two groups: a few tech companies and their employees, and those left completely outside the system due to automation?

The gains do appear to be moving towards capital tho. Barr warned this week that the US's low labor share of income, at 52.8% in Q2 2026, was a record low, and that the centralization of AI in a small number of companies could worsen this trend.

But the part of "left outside the system" hasn't yet been well established, the Stanford study showed that 22-25 year olds in the most heavily AI-exposed jobs are 19% below trend, but it appears to be mostly fewer hires rather than layoffs, and at this point, there's no indication of mass job loss across the economy. The surveys from the NY Fed also reveal that firms tend to retrain more employees than they let go.

Imo the two classes thing is pretty unlikely to happen, but the AI owners get more of the upside and it'll be a matter of policy and how quickly truly autonomous systems appear.

[Maslate]

It's only a conflict if we don't accept the reality, I'm no capitalist but I'm a worker, so I could relate my statement to the workers.

It cannot be denied that AI has been slowly replacing jobs, well as capitalists that's really what they will do to reduce costs and increase efficiency, but we cannot fight it by protesting because at the end of the day, they are still the ones who will decide since they are the ones who invested money in it. So maybe it's time to explore other opportunities that are not heavily affected by AI, like how about farming or anything related to it, there's still a demand for it because people need to eat so this will never go away. I know there are still lots of ways we just need to be creative and stop fighting for jobs that have no assurance of job security.

[jossiel]

Does anyone really think they’ll share the money and power they’ve gained with workers? I’m not a Pollyanna.

The money's already in the bubble and waiting for it to burst and it's going to be a lot of money to shed the global market once it happens.

And no, they won't share it as if they'll distribute it to everyone nicely. There's has to be some catch and like you and me, we have to invest on the right stocks for it but in our case, it's no stock but bitcoin.

Are you ready for the new conflict? Will we be divided into two groups: a few tech companies and their employees, and those left completely outside the system due to automation?

Those outside the system is also us, the employees.

No need for any division. Even if they automate their systems, there's still a need for employees to maintain and work on it to check if all systems go.

[viljy]

Class conflict always arises. Because one class seeks to preserve and protect its privileged position, while the other class is dissatisfied with its position and strives to change it for the better. Moreover, both sides of the class confrontation will use AI. Some defend themselves, others attack.

To avoid this conflict, the authorities need to either support millions of unemployed people at the state’s expense (and with a fairly high standard of living) or exterminate these millions of unemployed people. We cannot predict which of the two paths the powerful will take.

[Die_empty]

Are you ready for the new conflict? Will we be divided into two groups: a few tech companies and their employees, and those left completely outside the system due to automation?

Artificial intelligence has already created three classes in society. The first class is the group of AI inventors who control the industry. The second class is AI users, which include workers who use AI to accomplish their tasks. Those who are not AI-compliant are the next group, which comprises people who are not using these tools.

The industry has already captured about 21.5% of the global total public stock market value. This represents $19.86 trillion out of a $92.50 trillion global equity market.

To be a partaker of the money and power that the AI industry offers, you would have to be a developer, investor, middleman, supplier, or user in the AI space. If you are not part of the AI chain or system, then you are not ready to benefit from it. For now, I am just a user. But I have plans to buy some shares in some of these AI companies in the future.

[Fortify]

Throughout history, societies have always been reduced to two classes.

A massive revolutionary development lies ahead of us. When artificial intelligence reaches its full potential with autonomous systems, it will undoubtedly seize a large portion of total wealth.

Does anyone really think they’ll share the money and power they’ve gained with workers? I’m not a Pollyanna.

Are you ready for the new conflict? Will we be divided into two groups: a few tech companies and their employees, and those left completely outside the system due to automation?

Simple people like nice clean boxes to categorize others, but the reality is much more complicated than that. In fact less choice is actually terrible for humanity, just look at the rubbish system of government in America where you're forced into one of two parties with no other real choice. Yet politics has many nuances, you might agree with some ideas from one place that don't fit in with your group - basically other countries which have many political parties seem more progressive. There's a revolution going on but only in the sense that the internet or mobile phone was a revolution. The people at the top of these big companies were always there and always rich. In theory humanity should drift towards people doing more creative tasks with their time, which are hard to recreate using AI or may even be considered leisure rather than money based. There may need to be a redistribution of how capitalism works in this new age, because the masses may suffer unless all the money sat in the hands of the few is shared. We can already see from lunatics like Elon Musk that they would prefer to be incredibly destructive towards society rather than using their wealth beneficially for more people.

[tsaroz]

Throughout history, societies have always been reduced to two classes.

Religions = believers and infidels
Marx = the capitalist class and the working class
Fascists = those who worship the nation-state and the rest
Liberals = individual and authority

A massive revolutionary development lies ahead of us. When artificial intelligence reaches its full potential with autonomous systems, it will undoubtedly seize a large portion of total wealth.

Does anyone really think they’ll share the money and power they’ve gained with workers? I’m not a Pollyanna.

Are you ready for the new conflict? Will we be divided into two groups: a few tech companies and their employees, and those left completely outside the system due to automation?

It would be not much different from what we are already seeing, most of the wealth in the world now lies in big companies and people who are not associated with them has limited ways of earning. It was not much different on the past as well, the power and money were held by few people.
As of investment in those large companies, people now have easier access but it also has risks of its own. The other positive thing than the past is almost all of the governments have turned more socialist prioritizing helping the public compared to the governments in past and with decreasing population, AI could fit into doing what it can and leaving the rest on the available few people.
The situation could be more dire in the countries which has increasing population but they are rare and with more stricter immigration policies in the developed nations, they would need to think for them own self.

[Cointxz]

To avoid this conflict, the authorities need to either support millions of unemployed people at the state’s expense (and with a fairly high standard of living) or exterminate these millions of unemployed people. We cannot predict which of the two paths the powerful will take.

Due to corruption, I believe the side where the money relies will be the one in control in the future since “authorities” needs to earn too and the one paying them much more are those who pays the most.

It’s still a case to case basis but it’s true on my country that the whole authority is now operating as group of organize syndicate siphoning money from the country treasury. And those big business that generate huge taxes are now in control on whatever they want to imposed to consumer. I believe the same AI conflict will apply when the time comes.

[Accardo]

Whatever revolution it'll be will benefit the humans so much who has left a whole lot of industries for digitalization, with AI taking up the digital tasks, what would happen will be remarkable more people will focus on food production and going off-grid, they'll have no use for huge pile of paychecks, more people will embrace nature and leave a more meaningful life than waking up every morning to rush to a job tthat keeps them in front of a screen for hours. It's killing freedom and affects health a lot. I was reading a friend's story who spent over 7 years fully on screen, he's been on pain, during these periods.

With AI the next generation will move into farming, mechanical repairs, plumbing, furniture business, and mostly real estate. The tech duties will be left for AI and its founders. These things may crash afterwards when nobody pays attention to it, like Farming did when everyone pivoted to schooling and white collar jobs, scaling the price of food to be unbearable.

[coin-investor]

A massive revolutionary development lies ahead of us. When artificial intelligence reaches its full potential with autonomous systems, it will undoubtedly seize a large portion of total wealth.

Are we going to let this happen, AI with autonomous systems competing with human resources? If so, this is a threat; it's human that we stopped on something that threatens us because of our survival instinct.

So far, AI is assisting humans; I don't see the opposite where humans will be assisting AI. It's an insult to our intelligence; this so-called AI revolution will not come to the point where it will steal what is rightfully ours

[Jewan420]

When artificial intelligence takes away the sources of income of common people and the unemployment rate increases, then the fascist option may lead to conflict. Because, people will need money to live and they will need a source of income to earn money. If the state cannot eliminate unemployment, then the unemployed will create conflict for various reasons. When the people of the country are busy with work, then they will not have time to conflict.

There may not be any major conflict between the capitalist class and the working class. The capitalist group will employ those who will provide better services at lower costs. The workers may not have any direct objection to this

[slapper]

You Skipped A Basic Question

Not being a Pollyanna is fine, but you skip a pretty basic question. Who's buying?

AI could wipe out most jobs and concentrate most of the money in the hands of a few firms, but those firms still need customers. Robots aren't going to be buying sneakers and Netflix subscriptions. An economy where most people have no income is an economy where the rich few have no-one that they can sell to, so their profits go down. This would give them a financial (rather than a kind) incentive to share some of it through taxes and UBI and whatever else they decide to call it.

History says it won't happen that smoothly though. In the early industrial period in Britain, for at least several decades, there was a growing gap between productivity and workers' wages. While productivity rose rapidly, wages for many workers rose little, if at all. This phenomenon is sometimes referred to as Engels' pause. It was a nasty, prolonged affair. Over time, wages caught up, in part because of the diffusion of technology, but also because of political struggle. The spread of technology alone was insufficient to redress the problem. So yeah, you're probably right about the conflict part.

We're seeing a rapid trend toward commoditization in AI. In a matter of months, open source alternatives have begun catching up to models built by the big labs - and this trend is only going to accelerate. As technology gets turned into a commodity, the resulting decrease in profit margins means AI lab incumbents may get squeezed out. In the longer term it's possible the biggest winners will be companies that control the supply side: chips and power. In that scenario OpenAI and Google may end up looking like cast members on someone else's show. Kinda hard for a few tech companies to become a permanent ruling class on something that keeps getting cheaper.

[Coyster]

Are we going to let this happen, AI with autonomous systems competing with human resources? If so, this is a threat; it's human that we stopped on something that threatens us because of our survival instinct.

AI is already a threat to certain kind of jobs and it has been replacing workers in those sectors. There is nothing you can do to stop the development of AI, so as industries are adapting, so should people also acquire skills that would be useful with the current wave. That said, AI isn't going to replace all jobs, but for a fact, certain roles in institutions would no longer need humans.

Are you ready for the new conflict?

It is not a conflict in that sense. It is just AI advancement and you're left with the choice of adopting it or not, and failure to do so will surely have its own consequences.

[Synchronice]

Throughout history, societies have always been reduced to two classes.

Religions = believers and infidels
Marx = the capitalist class and the working class
Fascists = those who worship the nation-state and the rest
Liberals = individual and authority

A massive revolutionary development lies ahead of us. When artificial intelligence reaches its full potential with autonomous systems, it will undoubtedly seize a large portion of total wealth.

Does anyone really think they’ll share the money and power they’ve gained with workers? I’m not a Pollyanna.

Are you ready for the new conflict? Will we be divided into two groups: a few tech companies and their employees, and those left completely outside the system due to automation?

It's very hard to predict where the AI development will lead us because will it really achieve what we imagine? I think it will but another interesting question is, when? Then there is a talk that there will be pension for average people. That's interesting but there is also an experiment where they created such an ensuring environment for mice where they had unlimited food, water and so on. The society collapsed.
Many things will happen after the AI revolution but what happens after that moment, is the most interesting part and almost impossible to accurately predict.

[o48o]

Throughout history, societies have always been reduced to two classes.

Religions = believers and infidels
Marx = the capitalist class and the working class
Fascists = those who worship the nation-state and the rest
Liberals = individual and authority

A massive revolutionary development lies ahead of us. When artificial intelligence reaches its full potential with autonomous systems, it will undoubtedly seize a large portion of total wealth.

Does anyone really think they’ll share the money and power they’ve gained with workers? I’m not a Pollyanna.

Are you ready for the new conflict? Will we be divided into two groups: a few tech companies and their employees, and those left completely outside the system due to automation?

I am thinking that first causality of AI that makes most impact isn't lost jobs, even though that will hurt people. First causalities are privacy and stable infrastructures. There's no way that all information that's supposed to be private wouldn't be in danger now. Even if you scrubbed all your data in the internet and emails, there's no way of knowing if companies still hold it in somewhere in their backups. And all that is going to be hacked in few years for sure.

Number of hacks because of AI has increased rapidly, and that speed isn't decreasing any time soon. In fact it could just escalate.

It's just a matter of time when someone angry enough with their "jailbroken" AI tells their AI agent army to go rogue and make maximum damage everywhere. I don't think that any countries or companies have prepared for this, when they barely can prevent individuals hacking their critical systems. I am really hoping i am wrong with this, but i doubt it.

And on top of this, just the amount of disinformation is enough to damage whole regions.

[Hamza2424]

Are you ready for the new conflict? Will we be divided into two groups: a few tech companies and their employees, and those left completely outside the system due to automation?

Aren't we already facing this conflict? Bro, I think you did not notice the conflict, but yep, it is not as strong as it could get in the future, so we have to be ready for it. We can do that by learning other skills, like the ones that AI won't do or where AI can do the job but it will be costly for the employer, so you will still get hired.

To survive, we have to find work and earn money, and we have to do someone's work in order for someone else to do our work in exchange for that common currency.

But let's see what the future has for us. Will it be good or bad? We should hope for the best, though. That's the best thing we can do as humans. And we can work hard to make a living and not care about the rest, including the ones you categorized so beautifully.

[TastyChillySauce00]

Throughout history, societies have always been reduced to two classes.

Religions = believers and infidels
Marx = the capitalist class and the working class
Fascists = those who worship the nation-state and the rest
Liberals = individual and authority

A massive revolutionary development lies ahead of us. When artificial intelligence reaches its full potential with autonomous systems, it will undoubtedly seize a large portion of total wealth.

Does anyone really think they’ll share the money and power they’ve gained with workers? I’m not a Pollyanna.

Are you ready for the new conflict? Will we be divided into two groups: a few tech companies and their employees, and those left completely outside the system due to automation?

A lot of people said UBI (Universal Basic Income) will solve this but I also as doubtful as you are about the riches sharing wealth therefore that's only a wishful thinking. Elon has been saying that everyone on earth will be having Universal high income, not basic but high but I don't believe him.

I think the future conflict about concentration of wealth is unavoidable, it's already bad enough right now and it'll only get worse and people have no idea how to mitigate it. Another class conflict is the after product of the wealth concentration.