PALO ALTO, CA - A group of Silicon Valley tech CEOs assure North Americans that job losses from artificial intelligence could easily be mitigated by universal basic income, while also adding that they will stop any UBI plans at all costs.
In actual non-ironic news, UBI is not just the best but the only plausible remedy for AI job losses that I have ever heard of. It’s still not a great solution, though. A disturbingly small number of people are able to derive meaning from anything other than work.
Except there’s one small problem: AI is nowhere near ready to replace humans at the scale tech CEOs claim it will or even does. All what CEOs did is to force smaller crew to work 72 hours a week, which sure will be very sustainable in the short run.
In actual non-ironic news, UBI is not just the best but the only plausible remedy for AI job losses that I have ever heard of. It’s still not a great solution, though. A disturbingly small number of people are able to derive meaning from anything other than work.
And people without meaning get nasty.
Except there’s one small problem: AI is nowhere near ready to replace humans at the scale tech CEOs claim it will or even does. All what CEOs did is to force smaller crew to work 72 hours a week, which sure will be very sustainable in the short run.
So make them pick up trash or something to get the check? Your argument sounds a lot like perfection getting in the way of progress.
“them”, right.
Yes, the people without meaning. Your antecedent.