Seonglae ChoUniversal Basic Income
As AI automation concentrates wealth among capitalists and weakens the public's labor, tax, and resistance capabilities, a "stable dystopia" with permanently frozen social mobility may emerge. The state provides only minimal UBI, while the wealthy use AI and robots to protect themselves, solidifying power structures. This is close to a baseline scenario, but the possibility of avoiding it completely still remains through democratic diffusion of AI (open source) and other means.
Are we headed towards a stable dystopia? - Inverted Passion
I’ve been thinking about how AI is going to shape up society and one particular scenario seems like a high-probability outcome to me. Here’s how it could play out: • AI automates more and more of human-work • Returns from this automation flow back to capital holders, making them wealthier • As incomes of masses drop,… Read More
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