Frankly, I'm of the opinion that AI will either be so incredibly good that we cant imagine it or we all go extinct. It will be such a huge fundamental shift in both our society as well as our species that it may just be the most important thing we do.

Personally I want it to be good obviously...but if we all die, then it is what it is. I'll be dead, so I doubt I will care either way. still, what's the point of being so wound up about a potential bad future, when its certainty is not guaranteed?

We humans cannot predict with any real certainty what the future holds for us, that much is true, but what we do know is that AI will be a huge part of it, and work might be phased out completely because of it.

Now the million dollar question is obviously: what do we do when we don't have to work?

Realistically there is no "real" answer to this, as I've said, we cant really know how everything shakes out.

You're right that there isn't infinite resources on earth...but we wont be solely bound to our planet forever, there is infinite space around us and thus functionally infinite resources among the stars. But there's an even simpler way to make it so you can live your dream life of excess, FDVR, matrix level VR. You can live infinite lifetimes, do as you please for as long as you please.

Boom problem solved.

BUT that too is something we are in the dark about. We just don't know how it will shake out for us. Could be infinite torture with no escape...or infinite pleasure...who knows. But nothing we say here in this reddit thread will change the inevitable answer.

What you are looking for is an answer to the unanswerable. We can't know what its going to be like till it happens. We can't know how people may react to the change (though given our history violence is a usually a good guess >.>)

The answer is, we don't know. Nobody does.