AI drivers so far are almost as good as people under normal conditions. But it's those abnormal conditions that account for a disproportionate number of accidents.

Also, humans are extremely bad at sitting there doing nothing, waiting for a very occasional mistake.

Tesla was selling "full-self driving" in 2017, and yet still hasn't managed to actually achieve anything like that.

As usual, the last 20% of the work takes 80% of the time.

"If AI were in the hands of an authoritarian country,"

No country owns the major AI models, though. They are owned by corporations of proven rapacity and outspoken contempt for your average person.

When all the jobs are gone, because Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, etc own all the means of production, why would they round us up in camps? That costs money!

They will simply do as little as possible.

Oh, likely they won't let us actually die, there will be the bare minimum in free food and shelter so we don't all rise up in a last-ditch revolution, but you can be absolutely certain that Our Lords And Masters aren't going to spend the trillions it would take to give the rest of humanity modest but comfortable lives. "It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail." -Gore Vidal

Unfortunately, coming up really fast is the collapse of our ecosystem due not just to the climate catastrophe, but exponential growth of resource consumption and waste of every type.

And we're doing fuck all to prevent it: indeed the two great techno fads of the last decade, cryptocurrencies and AI, are pathologically consumptive of energy and raw materials, and are measurably hastening the end.

The fact that Altman is requesting trillions for his AI, but nothing to keep the planet habitable for our grandchildren, shows the level of dysfunction of our society.