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> extremely large "AI market"

It's potentially way bigger than that. AI doesn't have to be the product itself.

Fundamentally, when we have full AGI/ASI and also the ability to produce robots with human level dexterity and mobility, one would have control over an endless pool of workers (worker replacements) with any skillset you require.

If you rent that "workforce" out, the customer would rake in most of the profit.

But if you use that workforce to replace all/most of the employees in the companies you control directly, most of the profit would go to you.

This may even go beyond economic profit. At some point, it could translate to physical power. If you have a fleet 50 million robots that has the capability to do anything from carpentry to operating as riot police, you may even have the ability to take physical control of a country or territory by force.

And:

power >= money