Let's be realistic. If you're not working and making someone else money, they will find a way to get rid of you.
I think the human population will decrease dramatically when most jobs are automated and handled by ai. There is no true altruism in this world - either produce or cease existing.
Not my feelings. I think we should be able to pursue our interests and keep learning. I won't be around, but hopefully that will happen in the future.
I think there will be an extremely dangerous period during which it will be decided whether we end up in a dystopian or an utopian future.
Basically, if we remain under the illusion that working is the meaning of our lives and we have to work or else it's just wrong and bad and evil and lazy etc, then indeed, it's going to be bad.
But If it eventually occurs to us that we finally have the opportunity to actually free ourselves from responsibilities and that it's ok to live life for fun, not to work or produce, then we may actually create heaven on Earth.
In the dystopian future, despite the full automation of almost all industries, there is still no redistribution of goods. People still have to work 40 hours a week or else run the risk of not being able to afford basic needs such as food or housing. In that future big corporations who own the machines basically rule the world and they argue that since it's their product they don't have to share the benefits with others and governments, instead of caring of the well-being of the general population decide to protect the well-being of the soulless corporations under the disguise of fairness etc. That's the failure.
In the utopian vision, we realize that since no one needs to work anymore and machines can do everything, the only logical move forward is to provide everyone with everything they need. Food, water, housing, medical care and all other things some of which we may even view as luxuries right now. In this alternative, people don't wake up with panic attacks anymore, they don't worry about tomorrow and they're free to do everything they want. Doing everything may be impossible initially even after full automation but once virtual reality becomes a thing, all our dreams and deepest desires will be fulfilled. Everyone will be able to live in their own perfect universe experiencing just the perfect amount of suffering to keep them happy. And with life-extension technologies time itself will no longer be an issue. We'll become immortal gods of our own universes and being happy will be as simple as pressing a button. Just wishing to be happy, would be enough to be happy because our understanding of the brain and correlations between brain states and subjective feelings would allow us to modify brain chemistry and activity in a way that makes us feel good.
That's the end game of humanity pretty match. Perhaps our consciousness will develop further and we'll start to desire things we can't even imagine right now, but for the time being, I think what I described is the closes we could ever get to haven.
Now, regardless of which world we end up with, there will definitely be a bumpy period in which we're kind of there but our old beliefs and convictions keep us from fully embracing the new reality. You know, we have, and will have people talking how the work is important and we just need to work! And we'll have corporations and governments unwilling to substitute humans with robots. Basically, instead of reassigning a robot to every citizen and then treating the work done by that robot as if it was done by the human we'll keep insisting that humans still have to do something in addition and that the profit from the robots should go straight to the pocket of whatever company is producing them. People must realize that this is wrong and nonsense. It's my hope that we'll see through that rather sooner than later.
