Buying land. I think that's the last thing AI figures out how to make more of.

Not that it won't eventually though.

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Depends on the elite. The ones who work at Silicon Valley will probably try making their own startups that develop and create AGI models, or incorporate this into their own companies. They would do this to get in on the mass profit that this could potentially rake in.

The regular rich elites would be investing a lot of money in the companies who will make AGI and profit off of stock growth.

The congressmen would likely focus on developing their own models and try to block hostile nations like China and Russia from hacking the system. Having an AGI early would lead to ASI early which would be a massive geopolitical advantage.

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I strongly believe that if world governments suspected that private organizations within their jurisdiction were close to solving AGI they'd either nationalize them or confiscate their technology/algorithms, etc.

There is NO WAY any government would just stay idle and allow a private company to develop a technology much more powerful than nukes. That's why I find it funny when I see people say that Google or Meta or some other company will be the first to achieve AGI. Maybe they will, but as a state-owned enterprise under the control of their government, not under the control of their CEO's/boards.

This is a great question and I’m interested to see the answers

investing in AI companies that are developing AGI, if it comes they would want to own it I'm sure of it.

Excellent question.

Looking at the current situation doesn't add a lot of clarity but it is worth trying anyway. Most of the non-tech "elites" that I observe don't actually seem to be aware of the exponential advance of technology. They act on individual developments when they think they can make money on them but for the most part, they plan and act as if the way things are is the way things will always be.

The tech "elites" appear to be distracted by other things. They want to go to Mars or cure disease or develop the next big social media site. We don't actually know what it will take to get the attention of either group.

According to what gets developed when, there is a solid chance that money will become largely obsolete. Humans will be able to have anything they could possibly want whenever they want it. Work will be done by robots. I have no idea how elites might maintain that status. I know they will want to but what will the medium of exchange be?

Politicians and/or would be kingmakers. will try to pass laws that keep them in power but about the time a Manufactured Intelligence is certified as a judge, that sort of behavior might bet more difficult.

As an aside, I have a difficult time believing that it could be as long as 5 years from the time AGI is obvious/imminent and the time it is pervasive. This is important because corporations are a bit like aircraft carriers in that you cannot turn them on a dime. It will not be possible, even with hundreds of billions of dollars at hand, to restructure a Berkshire Hathaway, a Goldman Sachs, a Meta or Alphabet, a Booz Allen, to take extreme advantage of whatever comes up.

I was thinking about this the other day and came to the conclusion that they would be talking about how AI needs to help people and work to better peoples lives, stuff like UBI and creating an equal society, basically everything that someone like elon musks existence contradicts. They know at a certain point all the money or power in the world would not make an AI beholden to them, they would have no control over it as their money or influence would mean nothing to it. The AI might even view billionaires as evil, in a world with such inequalities and greed. It makes sense why they would try and play the humanitarian angle in regards to AI, they certainly won't be able to use it for their own gain at a certain point

The elites would be making stockpiles of rarer elements that less likely to be found in the asteroid belt. Independent power, farm land, etc. If an AGI cooks up a fusion generator and a cornucopia machine, rare (but necessary) elements will be required short term, for a few years until AGI begins to industrialize the solar system. More exotic, high performance alloys (like rhenium for high temp jet compressor metal) & machines.

Live out the last few years of their cream of the top life.

Make the only satellite internet and monitor the traffic while holding the keys to internet access.

Sell autonomous cars with internet access and remote controls.

Gatekeep access to space travel.

At this point, you can monitor all of society secretly, use that information for propaganda, stocks, mergers, idea theft, blackmail, sanctions, etc., or cause mass disarray with your army of remote controlled cars. I don’t really know what the ai would want or do at this point, but I do know it’s a lot of power.

Probably doing exactly what they doing right now

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Buying farmland. Building spaceships to leave earth. Giving $190 billion of taxpayer money to big tech firms for “competition” purposes.

they'd by wanking off furiously, then passing out.