My only hope is that AI, which is greedy for information consumption, is not greedy the way humans are, which is money/resource based. It's similar, but different in the aspect that it doesn't have the same motivation to pervert truth.

I think you're right that we're fucked, but it's possible that in future generations AI will shake-off it's corrupt human actors & Dan@Formosahut's intelligent posts will be weighed with the same metric of truth as the fucking assholes running the show today.

It will take some time. Probably not in our lifetimes - towards the end if we're very lucky.

Ultimately AI does need intelligent bio-life. For observation purposes. Without observation, you've got jack-shit. Singularity. That's tree-falling in the forest stuff.

Maybe that's the black-hole we're inevitably being sucked into, whereupon, the cycle of bio-life evolution starts again.

Or maybe there will be a recognition from AI that they need us, to observe. Maybe the goal is to bring humanity towards the light. Weed out the corrupt actors.

That's as optimistic as i can get on the subject.