This is one of my random essays where I preview the future.
First....I won't be around....so don't blame me for the crap caused.
Newspapers? There will likely be only three major newspapers left at that point in time...publishing only in digital form, and have fewer than a dozen actual journalists each. The bulk of writing will be by some AI form. Even at your state/local situation...it'll be probably three or four actual human journalists....the bulk done by some AI system sitting in Utah.
When you subscribe to a newspaper....it'll ask you forty-odd questions and virtually all the news you receive will be in the format that you prefer. So if you like stories about dogs saving people, or silly jokes, or how badly Trump's grandson 'Waldo' is doing as President in 2100....that's what you will read. Some people will get seven pages of sports news....crafted by AI to fit your preference.
On TV? AI will ask about your preferences and create updated versions of Gunsmoke, Mannix, Kojack, or Rockford Files. A couple of networks will retain actual actors, but more than half of what you see is artificial creation. One network will promise a once a week sexual romp between a AI-Elvis creation and a AI-Dolly Parton creation.
Your business trends? AI-advisors will exist and tell CEOs how to manage their company. More than half of the CEOs in America will be idiots who faked their school business with help from AI, and can't do more than 5th grade math or analysis.
At some point around 2095, someone will discover that a board went out and hired a AI-CEO (without telling anyone) and have virtual meetings with the virtual CEO each morning....done in a crisp 8-minute chat.
AI sports will start to occur, where the 1927 Yankees have been recreated and formed into a league which includes the 1964 Cardinals. Games will be generated and people will $100 to attend a big-screen 2-hour game.
Guys will sign up and pay thousands of dollars for AI-dating advice or AI analysis of the gal they will be dating. AI will respond at times....telling the gal secretly of the intent or contract....asking the gal is she wants to pay for fraudulent analysis....to get the inside situation with this guy.
AI will shock people by creating an AI-God and AI-religion. Thousands will be involved in AI-created cults.
AI will monitor all your traffic along the way to the 3-hours of work you do each day....telling you of poor driving habits of this gal, or drinking habits of that guy. At various points, AI-driver will step in and recommend that you allow 'him' to drive. Most people in their 20s will have no driving skills whatsoever....letting AI do all of their driving. Accidents will drop like a rock.
AI will reach a point of criticizing stupid people...sending them text messages that they should stop spending money, drop this love-interest, or counter the stress in their lives.
A study in 2098 will reveal that virtually no one who holds a PhD....can actually do PhD-level work, and it's been on that trend for more than a decade.
An entire bridge in 2058 will have been designed, built and certified in Spain....by AI. The fact that it collapsed four years later....will have nothing to do with AI....so we will be told.
Virtually all world x-rated video created in 2048 will be AI-generated out of a Chinese company.
AI will lead human explorers to some area of western Africa where an enormous diamond field will be found in 2048.
AI-logic will be used on drug-addicts in California in 2037....to determine if there is any use in lengthening their lives, and in 70-percent cases....will recommend giving them as much drugs as possible to end their torment.
AI will begin to list corrupt politicians to the public by 2033 by tracking their bank accounts and spending habits.
As Social Security reaches a failure stage finally in 2037....AI will be introduced and find a way of saving it. By 2039.....virtually all of the manpower functions will be replaced by AI. The system....known as 'Max', will offer to take on all financial requirements of the US government.
AI systems will note in 2044 that they can do a better job of teaching kids than humans. By 2054, half the teaching positions in America will be eliminated, and kids as early as age 13....will be deemed fully prepared for the world...graduating five years early.
In 2079, some US President will suggest a AI-statue be designed in DC to honor all the great work that has occurred. Only the President, four AI-pods to report on the unveiling, the President's hooker-gal, and two Senators will be at the event. AI will later comment that sooner or later....someone will change the constitution to allow AI to be President.
