alt Hacker News> If people actually did appreciate it the economy would collapse immediately long before we've adequately "replaced"
You will need to explain that one. Becauase if economy colapses before the singularity, there will be no singularity.
There will be no datacenters, no ai, none of that super expensive stuff dependent on debt and disposable money.
I suspect the economy has already been collapsing, with or without AI, and that's only a symptom of a larger civilizational collapse. Something is fundamentally broken in the global system of politics and economy. Technologies enabled by AI will only accelerate the process to its inevitable consequence, whatever that may turn out to be, for better or worse, some kind of social transformation.
In that case - and I wish it were not true - the AI companies need to ensure that society keeps running until the next stage is prepared. How? Probably by positioning themselves as an indispensable part of government, training an army of AI agents for all purposes where human physical and metal labor can be replaced, taking control of a large chunk of the economy.