Machines in control: the dark side of utopia (science video).

Isaac Arthur examines how artificial intelligence may help bring about a Post-Scarcity Utopia, assuming the robots don’t take over, instead.

And we also dream of futures that involve Post-Scarcity Utopias (Iain M. Banks’ Culture) … but its dark reflection is the Post-Discontent society, one where through deception or brainwashing, people do not even know how they are being deprived or oppressed. Line up for the Matrix, you filthy flesh-puppet!