What is AI likely to experience before completely penetrating our society?

Many tech companies are developing all sorts of AI and seem to beat human beings that OpenAI developed an AI to beat professional players in solo games (but got beaten by professional teams in 5vs5 games) and DeepMind developed an AI to beat top go players. Many of us are afraid that one day, their jobs will be taken by AIs and they will be unemployed and lose life support. Such fear is not unreasonable that there have been some jobs which have been replaced by robots; therefore, the people with such fear will try their best to prevent AIs from penetrating their life. In addition, politicians may potentially use such fear to gain support to give themselves political strength and slow down the development of AIs and set up new restrictions. Of course, politicians are also likely to be influenced by those tech companies’ lobbyists to support AI development.

AI is being developed by many tech companies. These tech companies believe developing AI can boost productivity and replace people in some dangerous fields, such as mining. Boosting productivity is a great deal. Firstly, the world is entering a period of ageing population and the population growth rate is decreasing over time. Boosting productivity can help the world maintain the current development rate.Secondly, if AI can do better than human and never make mistakes, even improve its own ability over time by machine learning, then it is economically sensible for companies to replace ordinary workers with AI. Thirdly, AI can work longer and does not need holiday, companies can use AI to provide 24/7. This would be a huge upgrade in customer experience, especially in countries where the labour cost is very expensive.

Although there is still a long way for AI to be equivalent to human being, when the time comes, companies will be the first to welcome the arrival of AI while the ordinary population will fight against AI for rescuing their jobs. Governments will not see many people lose jobs to AI so new laws and regulations will be made to guarantee there will be still some jobs left for human beings. However, under such circumstance, Only the jobs which help to develop new AIs will actually create values to the entire society, other jobs humans have are merely social benefits given by government regulations.