--- title: What Would You Do If You Had 8 Years Left to Live? description: The post explores the imminent arrival of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and outlines four key factors contributing to it: investment, processing power,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-would-you-do-if-you-had-8-years-left-to-live--yxlzg5xom twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What Would You Do If You Had 8 Years Left to Live? | daily.dev og:description: The post explores the imminent arrival of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and outlines four key factors contributing to it: investment, processing power,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-would-you-do-if-you-had-8-years-left-to-live--yxlzg5xom og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Yxlzg5xoM.png og:image:alt: What Would You Do If You Had 8 Years Left to Live? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # What Would You Do If You Had 8 Years Left to Live? **[Substack](https://daily.dev/sources/substack)** · 10 min read · 30 upvotes · 3 comments ## Summary The post explores the imminent arrival of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and outlines four key factors contributing to it: investment, processing power, algorithms, and data. It discusses the potential timeline for reaching AGI by 2027 and the subsequent societal impacts, including mass job displacement and economic shifts. The author shares personal reflections on how to live life with the possibility of AGI-induced societal upheaval and suggests potential investment strategies to navigate the AI-driven future. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@ghost** · 1 upvotes > Interesting analysis, too bad for the conclusion ; if AI makes jobs disappear (as many innovations did in the past) but the people don't get value (income) from it, the conclusion shouldn't be "bet on AI, get rich fast" but "get more political and eat the rich" imho > > I like to imagine a world where we use AI and automation to replace all jobs that can be replaced, so that we don't have to work anymore, but for that, we need to share the wealth. **@oliverrc** · 0 upvotes > Well the AI + Robotics replacing human jobs is somewhat laughable. I don't see many service jobs like electricians, plumbers, mechanics etc being automated. > > Sure factories and fixed locations could get way more automation but for in home services it seems less likely in the short term. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#automation](https://daily.dev/tags/automation) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/what-would-you-do-if-you-had-8-years-left-to-live--yxlzg5xom) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"What Would You Do If You Had 8 Years Left to Live?","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-would-you-do-if-you-had-8-years-left-to-live--yxlzg5xom","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-would-you-do-if-you-had-8-years-left-to-live--yxlzg5xom"},"datePublished":"2024-06-21T09:48:22.449Z","dateModified":"2024-08-23T15:35:02.610Z","description":"The post explores the imminent arrival of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and outlines four key factors contributing to it: investment, processing power,...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/450d02478c2a94f5996c764ebc9f98ca?_a=AQAEuiZ","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/450d02478c2a94f5996c764ebc9f98ca?_a=AQAEuiZ","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Substack","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Substack","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--KFqxX_OL--/f_auto,t_logo/v1698154293/logos/substack.jpg","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/substack"},"commentCount":3,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-would-you-do-if-you-had-8-years-left-to-live--yxlzg5xom","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":30},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":3}],"keywords":"ai,automation","timeRequired":"PT10M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Substack","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/substack"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"What Would You Do If You Had 8 Years Left to Live?"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-would-you-do-if-you-had-8-years-left-to-live--yxlzg5xom","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"Interesting analysis, too bad for the conclusion ; if AI makes jobs disappear (as many innovations did in the past) but the people don’t get value (income) from it, the conclusion shouldn’t be “bet on AI, get rich fast” but “get more political and eat the rich” imho\nI like to imagine a world where we use AI and automation to replace all jobs that can be replaced, so that we don’t have to work anymore, but for that, we need to share the wealth.","datePublished":"2024-09-16T11:29:35.647Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/Yxlzg5xoM#c-6ZMO06ZhK","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Deleted user","url":"https://daily.dev/ghost","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--hNIUzLiO--/f_auto/v1705327420/public/ghost_vlftth"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Well the AI + Robotics replacing human jobs is somewhat laughable. 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