There is an old saying that the only constant is change, and another, that you should live in interesting times. So, here one of mine “Hey Quantum-AI guy, first you barged into my life, then you eliminated my job, you ruined my life, and now you stole my wife. Now wait a minute QAI guy, this just became personal!”

Overview In this article, we will examine the drivers behind this newest wave technology of artificial intelligence AL This leading to both higher demand for products and services and also those with increasing obsolescence of those who do not fit this paradigm. This is a zero-sum game, where there are always winners who will replace the losers, not on this as this is not on a one for one basis. After AI, will come the human component to be added to AI to infuse it with the common sense and nuances of an intelligent person, or AGI. The road to this requires a lot of work to define and build this into AI. This is also described as agentic intelligence where AI takes the initiative to learn and perform complex, multistep tasks without human oversight. Then comes quantum computing, or computing in ways, so beyond a current digital computer DC of today is to GC as a radish is to F-35 fighter jet. AI is now QAGI. However, just with AI alone has the potential to decimate job market as we know it. The drivers of this technological progress start with the companies and individuals who are navigated the market and disrupting it. And make no mistake about it, this is a race to the finish, in terms of dominance, riches, prestige and their future. The US has spent $800 billion and the world $1.5 trillion during the last twelve years and will forecast to grow 35% just this year. This should be well a cautionary tale for those who fail to adapt. This is the rate of progress or obsolescence, as Moore’s law in 1965 noted, that there was a doubling the number transistor on a microchip, at a modest increase of cost even now. With the addition of quantum computing (QC) this will make this even more a potent form of magic, but where is our place in this new world. It is at this point, say that although there are some unbelievable things that we will be talking about here as to the unprecedented race to AI, AGI and CAGI with the exception of their Manhattan project to build the first atomic bombs in WWII, as the cliche note "nothing is over until the fat lady sings". 

As we’ll delve into our subject, there will be many things that will expedite timeline and unforeseen events that can retard or even derail the projections. So don't sell your house just yet and move to Tahiti. 

We will consider the ways to sustaining one’s technical advantage, where the only constant is how fast can one go to keep their competitive edge. Staying current in a dynamic world is no small chore, as expressed by the billions of dollars invested in the half-life of jobs, or how fast can one run to just stay current. The faster newer programs and standards become the golds standard, the shorter is one’s relevance and marketability. The lowest half-life for an AI engineering type is 1-1½ years. A QAI software engineer needs to stay at the bleeding edge, with only marginally less time for legal, marketing, sales, people. In the mid-range are the bulk of the fundamental technical jobs, project managers, engineers, and data scientists, of 2½ -7½ years. This is followed by accounting and finance people with both the fundamental and soft skills and are compensated accordingly. 

Then are the officer’s group, of the CEO, CFO, VP of manufacturing, and others at the VP level (although this title is given out so frequently, it no longer represents the upper management level). It is imperative to take advantage of the new technology to stay at least current if not at the leading edge in their field to sustain their role in the company. Adding in profitability and to effectively manage those who they lead. The CEO. and his top managers must be able to deal effectively with everything from the company stock and their employees to shareholder, banks, public activists, and the press. This not only requires superior intelligence, but the requisite management and communication skills do deal with people and technology at all levels, requiring emerging skills required in every level AI, AGI and QAGI.

Extraordinary controls are needed to deal with extraordinary situations. The reality of AI coming into the world has been incubating for two decades. It is far from a finished product, but even now it both brings dreams of riches and comfort, while threatening to destroy our way of life if used in the wrong way, or even in the right way. It is no different from nuclear energy that can provide us with an unlimited amount of power, without global warming, while it can be used to make a bomb, destroying most of life on the planet. AI is forecast to eliminate most all while collar jobs (clerical and management, to physicians and professors) in anywhere from one to five years from now. This per Geoffrey Hinton, the Godfather of AI believe that AI has that consciousness, (it is believed that microtubules 25 nanometers in diameter in the brain, is the seat on consciousness and creating similar structures in QC will result in AI others consciousness disagree.) He says there will be no white-collar jobs in three years. And as of today, blue collar jobs fell from 30% to 8% due to automation of the workforce since 1950. Today in the US, 15 million jobs are driving on one type or another. And well over 100,000,000 worldwide. And we have already replaced many drivers and most of this has been started, and the lions share will be done by 2040 in the US and first world countries. The world of robots relies on AI, and this will have a whole additional impact on labor covers. And sooner there will be few people left to fire, so will the last person to go, and the saying was will the last person please turn out the light, but it is movement activated. After that we get to QAGI. The trillion-dollar question, as humans are sentient, and possess consciousness. Is this the province of biological entities alone. Or will this be emergent. Can QC be like nothing else we have ever seen, gain conscienceless and think it is an independent entity. At this point it’s an unproven part of string theory and M theory physics, one step beyond our ability to prove. We believe that Hinton and others think it not only can happen, but has already happened, and is an aspect of cognition and reality itself. (Included things the areas of superposition, entanglement and the multiverse, we will go over a bit later)

The Start of This Decade. In 2020, we had very capable human administrative assistants (HAA), some of whom had an advanced degree and they made their boss look great as they took care of everything that he/she need not worry about so he could concentrate of the things that truly needed his dedicated attention. He has full confidence that we were on cruise control. The HHA had all of the intangible’s skills like finesse, social skills, and interpersonal soft skills in relating well to others. And that person had most of the hard skills such as being well school in Power Point, Excel, and Word, plus QuickBooks and NetSuite and a sufficient understanding of simple programming languages to be at least semi-literate here as well. An HHA with this compliment of skills is invaluable in today’s office. 

Now imagine all of these hard and soft skill in AI or AI agent where you can converse with and simply work with as easily as your HAA, including reminding you about whatever, maybe even if it was a robot. Now saying you’re a six-figure compensation package, who never asks for a raise or PTO. At the end of this decade in 2029 (Musk says Grok is almost there now, but his timelines have missed before), and things will be very different, if we don’t blow up ourselves first.

In the short term, the next 3 years or so, we may be seeing the calm before the storm in human technology. AI workers of every stripe will be needed. This included programmers, software engineers, UI and UX de signers, IOT specialists, data analysts, automation specialist, and electrical vehicle specialist, to name but a few areas. This may be tempered by the almost inevitable recession we are seeing the first tremors of now, as the number of new hires has already dipped, along with higher unemployment rate, unless The BLS is data is compromised.  Continued online here>

Bloomberg Intelligence report indicates that global banks are expected to cut up to 200,000 jobs in the next three to five years as AI encroaches on tasks performed by humans. Perhaps the above projections are suspect when compared to other sources. Recent developments in the U.S. job market suggest that the World Economic Form optimism may be misplaced, particularly concerning the impact of AI and automation for software developers, UI (user interface) designers and other tech-related careers, time will only tell.

In the tech sector, companies like Meta are restructuring their workforces in response to AI advancements. And CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced plans to lay off 5% of their staff. He’s actively announced that the company is looking for ways to replace mid-level engineers with AI technology. Similar moves by other tech companies are certain to follow, such as Salesforce introduced of Agent Force, where a cadre of task-oriented AI agents are ready to work with their clients.

New Tech: Risk. New Rewards. Algorithms and AI is taking on tasks once thought to require uniquely human judgment, ranging from medical diagnostics to creative writing. AI doesn’t just automate tasks; it improves them at scale. Though new tariffs are causing huge shifts in in trade around the world, much of it is circumventing us. Examples include Mexico and Canada, and Canada replacing us in EU trade, and Japan doing the same in southeast Asia, with China, Taiwan, the Philippines, and others. And unless the Supreme Court overturns the president this too will happen. One can only hope that the president saves from himself by countermanding high unilateral tariffs. 

Then there is the world of sci-fi that maybe starting to come to fruition. We are starting to see right now some of the marker. It all started with AI bots, like Chat GPT, followed up by AI assistants like Claude AI who are similar, yet a step above in communicating with, integrating HAA’s soft skills. AI could of course run circles around a HAA in most every situation, problem, or query, especially for complex issues. Added to this would be the most human of all things that define real person. The alpha to omega range of human attributes, from cunning and ingenious, ruthlessness to humanity, fraudulent to honesty, sincere to devious. and idiosyncratic to normal. AI would have a real sense of humor, creativity, curiosity, and character. To create a bot to have this range of human emotions and quirks would be the sign that we have reach the next step on the ladder to achieving at least the intelligence that we possess equal to ours. This is defined as singularity and where an observer could not tell the difference in a human and is now reaching AGI level of capability. 

Some 75 years ago a test was created known as the Turing test, to tell if a person was a bot, or a real person can tell the difference from a bot and a real person. This was a first definition of singularity; they were essentially interchangeable. Which of AI bots like Chat GPT and agents like Claude who can pass this test blindfold. But this is the take off point where AGI will diverge from a very smart computer by machine learning and recursive improvements. At some point AI, at first by AGI and very likely when becomes QAGI, it is projected to become almost sensation. We are already seeing emerging feature of AI. Including eerie earmarks of a sense of a “self” Some features of AGI have already gone sideways, and AGI may have the exhibited the first elements of personhood, with a touch of what seems like the id and the ego. AIG operators have seen what can only be called out as deception and outright lies when with one person, but not another. Then there is the creativity factor of AGI that a supercomputer cannot resonate with. Here is an example of where this can lead. AGI recognizes it as an entity and like us it needs sustenance to stay “alive” and if denied access to a power grid if denied it will “die”. So, with a prime directive of saying alive, means its needs to control its access to electricity, and then wanting to do more and more. AGI could find a way to penetrating the grids, almost the way a terrorist could by tunneling war through, and at many breach points. It could do the same for control of raw materials transport, logistics and now consider where the sense of self as its prime directive may take it. As in The Terminator movies, fast forwarded a dystopian future where Arnold Schwarzenegger was coming back from the future to save us. It is not inevitable that life somehow mimics fiction, but times are changing and where we are herding to an uncertain future. And we think we have recently seen retro causation at CERN, a form of time travel. According to some subatomic physicists, this recent CERN experiment, with the help of AI, had a small chance of just pushed our metastable universe into the realm of "poof and it’s all gone". 

Will QAGI Become an Existential Threat? There is the line of demarcation. As we add Quantum computing to AGI, we may find like Dorothy, we are may soon be living in the land of the wizard of Oz, but we won’t be able to return to Kansas. Let’s first start with the fact that no one really understands what, how or even where QAGI does its work. We understand digital and even supercomputers. To simplify, you write code (in a language like Python or C++). You run it and it executes, you can follow the computational process, and you get your result, if it’s not what you wanted or expected, you can modify things and run it again and again to optimize your results with DC's you can see and understand what is happening. But not so with quantum computers. QC has no conventional binary 0 or 1 switches as in a digital, QC operates where qubits, of information that exist in multiple superposition states and at the same time of entanglement, and nothing is determined until the wave collapses into an outcome when it is measured. QAGI possesses superintelligence you cannot understand how it works; you are one of the very few people who do, or who is faking it. Understanding what realty is and how it works is still speculative although we are advancing in our understanding. The physical brain works on motor skills, when we that separate this form cognition, which Is an emergent property that we don’t really understand. From creation to creativity to consciousness is a long path. Our conscious brain gives rise to everything we do that makes us an alert, living human being, that then gives rise to our humanity, emotions from love and devotion to deceit and lying, that no self-respecting digital computer would ever have anything to do with. We need to remember that QC is in its embryonic stage but has already proving to be beyond anything we conceive or even dreamed of. It will make analog and digital computing, the internet, all means of broadcasting, audio visual communications, etc. look like child’s play. Now you can see the problem clearly, to cut a path for us in the land of Oz will be very difficult if not impossible without the "approval" of QAGI, and how it, in a rational world it can somehow benefit by hooking up with us.

What is creativity, would be easier to explain as extrapolation “thinking” to guide from the past to the future. This may be akin to the spark of creativity. As to deception, is more curious. For example, an AI bot will lie to one operator but not to another, as of self-aware system has done with two different operators. We may have even sensed aspects of an id, or an ego, the inkling of wanting to control of its destiny. Without this it is still a machine that can be controlled by us. Our next creation quantum computing, while still in its infancy gets us into the world of the even greater unknowns. We already know that this is a force like nothing like those emergent behaviors, we have ever seen before. 

Often sci-if eerily predates reality. Take In the movie “2001, a Sparce Odyssey”, our astronaut Dave, who is locked out of the capsule asks HAL the computer in control, to open the door, HAL says “sorry Dave but I am afraid I can’t do that it”. HAL determines that the mission is too important to leave to humans and takes over command.

This may be the first time we don’t understand what we have created does what it does, we are watching magic, and we are in the audience. How did that big white rabbit come out of a small black hat? AI chips like, Majorana, Willow. Sycamore, Condor and DoJo-N1 are here. The technology is improving every day and is now moving us into the world of QAGI. To even call this computing is a more than an oversight, we have crossed the Rubicon from sci-fi to the world of the outer fringes of science and technology. This has some mind-bending concepts, like multi-dimensions, parallel universes, the multiverse, what reality is. We are seeing the speed in QAGI coming up with answers. At this time the only way we can account for the giga-giga magnitude calculations of QC vs. DC. in parallel universes, where in a couple of minutes it comes up with the right answer, that takes the best digital computer 1 followed by 18 zeros. This is a reality out biological brains and not envision, at least not right. Just like the Conquistadors landing in the new world, their firesticks that killed the natives had to settle for them just witnessing magic. The question is what we need to do, to bring value to us humans. How do we stay relevant in the age of AI, let alone QAGI? Will we suffer the same fate of the natives?

For example, plain old AI, deciphered ancient texts that no expert has been able to crack over the ages and extract meaning by apparently opening a portal to eleven other dimensions, to run simultaneously calculations in these multiple dimensions, to achieve its miraculous results, by rendering the answer up to us. This includes extracting embedded in data extracted from space probes that we had missed before. And it has the capacity not only surpass our thinking capacity but invent new industries out of whole cloth. Its computational power is a boon to industries from finance, hospitality, logistics, and manufacturing, to farming, the sciences and most anything one can throw at it. And yes, it is a little bit better then counting on your ten fingers.

And let’s not forget recursive improvements where improvements grow exponentially. As QAGI is almost at the take off point of where there can be exponential acceleration in its capability need improve equations, it will do so exponentially. This is the magic of recursive learning, and QAGI never finished in self-improvement. The process that gave birth to it never finished a product. Now come the trillion-dollar question. Can we carve out a role for us and place where we provide critical function somewhere in this new world, will still be relevant, or obsolete?

What will Happen to Us? There are numerous scenarios that exist going forward in both the blue- and white-collar jobs. Here are five of them here: [1]. Utopia, this is the best of all worlds. We bond with QAGI, it fully understands us, what we want and need, before we think of it and the best ways to achieve our goals, and update them factoring in all countless variables. But this may come at the expense of hybrid body fuzzed with a silicon brain link like Neuralink [2]. Digital Heaven, QAGI takes over and run everything, and benevolently sends you off into an altar reality, where all your dreams come true either as your digitized brain, or if you wish, to your version of A Field of Dreams. [3]. QAGI Does It All. We receive a government stipend to keep the economy going, as someone has to buy whatever products and services are generated by CAGI while we are on a permanent vacation, aka retirement. Were all of our wishes are fulfilled, and we have a fulfilled life, and we needed. [4]. Virtual Wasteland for Us, at best, we would be an annoying sub-specie, and eventually then sent off by QAIC into a parallel universe and forgotten. [5]. The Apocalypse and Extinction. In the worst-case scenario, our GAGI overlord may not warn up to any vestige of us being round them and we

would be slated for extinct, Dystopia. But wait a minute, even though this might happen we could fight and do as much damage as could to “the system” before its sayonara for mankind. But we still have plenty of time to slow things down if we see this would be out fate, as Kyiv is still fighting when all though their fate was sealed. 

The Singularity and Us. This happens when any version of AI reaches and then pass us up. AI became the focus of everyone’s attention, we though its singularity was a long way off. It now appears that the first step is AGI. This is being achieved now buy a couple of the major players. Enough data has been captured to apply large language models (LLM), which is key to go from AI to go AGI. and will be at the same capacity to reason and perform as well as vary capable people. This is singularity. The step to QAGI which a big leap forward, expected to happen between 2030 to 2040. But we have aways to go to understanding QC before we can merge it with AGI. This last step is much more of a challenge to deliver on than AGI, as It is like a black box, that it works, but we still don't know exactly how QC works, and we must solve before turning QAGI loose, specifically 1. What is real and true consciousness. What makes for a sense of oneself and controlling it, so it does not overwhelm a sense of the whole 2. While AGI is at basically comprehendible, GC is not well understood and that is really scarry, it’s the genie in the bottle. We can deal with physic, mathematics, and impossibly large data sets, but we need to better understand the soft sciences of the 3 p's: philosophy, phycology and psychiatry. that can tell us if the output of QAGI has hidden agenda, warped by metal illness of derangement, malevolence, and monomania. Remember that the its deep learning using large Lage Models (LLM) includes digesting everything including these human traits used to gain power by some of our most warped people including horrific but effective leaders and victors, but our creation may pick up and see as not as terrible and unacceptable, but they may see this acceptable means to an end, with no value judgement, as did megalomania Gheneas Kahn to Hitler felt. Until we figure out how to put guardrails up for QAGI we should not go further; but we will in winning the QAGI race. People most always start with good intentions, but when money and competitive juices override lofty principles. This can with or without consciousness, but with consciences, it will be an existential threat. QAGI of taking over most of the things we do, but better, faster and cheaper than we humans can in the next couple of years. Doing this at scale ma take a year to more, but 2030 it should be everywhere, assuming buildout of the supporting infrastructure of electrical power, cooling water, legislation, money and there ae no wildcard showstoppers.

Uploading our consciousness and leaving our biological bodies behind, would make us an integral part of QAGI's and track our enhancements and capabilities. Recursive gene editing is essential for us to remain an integral part of QAGI functionality. We could not stay relevant with recursive biology without QAGI. and we can't be the reason that slows its own recursive feedback loop. We our recursive biology retards QAGI's that would cast us out and QAGI will likely cast us out and function on its own. We possess the human intangibles, of intuition, humanity, conscience, empathy, and other intangible, et al, (but don't follow), but it may be the missing ingredient to hopefully be the compass to anchor QAGI and save the day from it going rogue. But let’s revisit the human insanity of pushing past the limits of risk-taking experimentation at CERN. The Higgs Boson, aka the God particle, that gives subatomic its mass, and the importance that it deserves Our brilliant scientists, consciously ran through the flashing red light and instead of hitting the brakes, they accelerated due to their hubris and ambitions. We they may have put a tare in curtain of reality and stumbled into retro-causation or a time warp. We are still not sure. 

Throughout history, superior intelligences, armed with the superior weapons have prevailed. If we don't keep up with QAGI we may at the best-case scenario be left behind. And we certainly don't want to rely on the kindness of strangers (QAGI) to survive. Unless we have something more than our good looks to offer QAGI, charity and irrelevancy will be the best we can hope for, as we may have nothing more to offer for a better lot in life. But with competition heating up this race, be it from corporations to nations, this train is leaving the station. To assure that continued human genetic improvements take place, we can't keep pace with what nature does with only human gene splicing. But the next level past humans 1.0 human must be with the help of QAGI and recursive improvement to get human 1.1, 1.2 and on and on. This can be done with or without uploading us into QAGI. The reason to do so would be part of it, and not be passed by, or worse. The reason to resist would be our sense of an independent self, but we may not see the end of the movie, but that will not be by our choice. 

Yet somehow, we have always seemed to have enough niches and gaps in the world, as one door closes another one opens up. Which maybe have been the case, but the wheels of progress are churning and churning, with no net loss of jobs, and just enough space for people who have newfound riches and somehow sustenance people. But the magic new job show may have finally left town. The economic pie grew larger and larger to sustain most of this first world and much of the rest of the world. The people of the top tier got relatively rich and richer. Those in the middle had just enough of the pie to feel satiated. Those at the bottom found enough of the crust and crumbs to sustain them for yet another day. Then there were the newest entrants at the dinner table. But now there were eight billion people, most were not invited far into the big tent. These people either somehow survived and accept their fate of living on the edge and quietly perished from hunger and malnutrition in sight of the top folks who for the most part looked away, and that was the way of the world. It was survival of the fittest. But now if the predictions of QAGI come true, we better have a better plan for filling in the niches and gaps. The numbers of these are being eliminated as part of the grand scheme. It is called optimization. 

You might want to review the "What Will Happen to Us", and hope we arrive at one favorable outcome for mankind, or there will not be any place to hide. 

 It was the mission of Sam Altman one of the visionaries and founders of Open AI and Chat GPT, to have AI be the answer to everything. It is nonprofit, but the dream of AI was forever gobbling up hundreds of millions of dollars. When it was drowning in debt, Microsoft came to the rescue, but they were a for profit company, and they are operating on an agreement as they will find a way out of this morass that works for both parties. However, the AI playing field is now more crowded than a Japanese subway at rush-hour. And there will certainly be winners and losers. There is a largess of VC money and partners for those scrapped for cash. For those with a healthily balance sheets they can use their money borrow at favorable rates and go it alone. However, some estimates are that only 5% of those now playing now will succeed. It is the new gold rush; some will fail while other well be acquired. The only group that will generally succeed are the ones selling the picks and shovels that the miners need to operate and the bankruptcy attorneys. 

Conclusion: The Darwinian Business Landscape. The lesson from history is clear: survival belongs to those most adaptable to change. In today’s world, the tempo of change is faster, the consequences of inertia harsher, and the rewards of reinvention are greater. Companies who embrace lifelong adaptation, continuous innovation, understand risk and strategic reinvention will not just avoid obsolescence, but thrive. This is already racing past the dot-com economy, and hopefully not ending like their bubble. 

The message is stark but empowering: in this age of AI, quantum computing, and robotics, irrelevance is optional. Invention, sagacity and sometimes luck is the path to success, and when knocked down resilience or cutting your losses might be best option, Make the right decision; don't selling off your life insurance plan.