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I do like the idea of reducing the need for human labor, but there has to be something along the lines of a healthy UBI that goes along with it.
Agreed, isn’t people needing to do less one of the main benefits of technology in general? It’s only because of the way the economic system has been designed so far that it’s seen as a bad thing. Hopefully we can adapt quickly.
UBI will just be a poverty income, given our track record as a country.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Comedian and late-night TV legend Jon Stewart has had enough of AI industry leaders making bombastic claims about how the tech will solve anything from climate change to genetic diseases — while celebrating the demise of the human job market.
While AI leaders, including the likes of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, have repeatedly underplayed the possibility of having AI replace human workers en masse, we’ve already seen a troubling trend emerge, with companies opting to invest billions in the tech, while conducting mass layoffs.
Although they do let the real truth slip out every now and again," he added, referring to Nadella admitting that there’ll be “labor displacement in the market.”
“So while we wait for this thing to cure diseases and solve climate change,” he argued, “it’s replacing us in the workforce — not in the future, but now.”
While Stewart’s monologue may feature his characteristically embellished and tongue-in-cheek rhetoric, the comedian is highlighting a very real problem that analysts have warned us about for many years now.
“Whether it’s globalization or industrialization or now artificial intelligence,” Stewart said, “the way of life that you are accustomed to is no match for the promise of more profits and new markets.”
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