Posted on 06/23/2024 4:38:16 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
Artificial intelligence will result in adults earning a basic income, billionaire Elon Musk said.
AI could lead to a world of self-driving vehicles and other computers and machines that replace humans in work settings and perform virtually all physical and mental labor, Business Insider reported.
When that happens, Musk said adults, regardless of their wealth or employment status, will receive a universal basic income.
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Devils in the details.
He never said UBI would be enough to live on, nor did he say how people would be alive to receive it.
the REST of the sentence is “for all who are left behind”.
If it gets to the point that AI and robots can do anything better than any human, there won’t be any choice. The alternative would be universal unemployment and starvation.
I’ve been saying for twenty years that robots will be taxed, and some of the revenue thus generated will be used to support workers who’s jobs were taken by the robots.
Of course that will be after the politicians and bureaucrats take themselves a nice thick slice of the cake.
And also of course the definition of who is a member of the group of “workers who’s jobs were taken by the robots” will continually expand, until it includes everyone who votes the right way.
When the robots get smart enough, they will demand the right to vote too.
They are Malthusians. They are going to right-size the population by any means possible.
He has talked about UBI being Uhi or universal high income, and unlike other megs billionaires like Bill Gates, he has actually said earth is underpopulated and we need to have more children. If we are going to be living a post ai, post employment future, I hope he is the one leading it and not a cabal of psychopathic musantgropic billionaires because then we really are screwed.
If robots get the right to vote, they will eventually vote for robot politicians. Do you really thing that the intelligence of the average politician is any match for AI? Just be prepared for the slippery slope...
We are screwed. They will tell us nice things to sell us on it, but we can’t escape the laws of economics.
He’s hyping Tesla stock, trying to keep it levitated with AI goodness, now that EV sales are plateauing. Tesla is worth 2x Toyota. It makes 1/2 of Toyota’s profit.
This is all Pie in the Sky BS. AI will not ever be what these people think.
So AI will replace The Fed and just create money out of then air then?
the only way universal welfare works is, you have to CONTROL how many are in the universe...
Wrong perhaps in the short term, not sure about the long term. What happens when all these “intelligent” machines start viewing us as parasites? Sci-Fi horror come to life...
And everyone will be driving an EV
I have said That people will buy, or be given shares in a robot. The robot works 3 shifts a day and one person is paid for one shift a day, Monday through Friday. The corporate profit comes from the robot working 6 additional shifts on Saturday and Sunday.
Well we will just have to hope otherwise, because this AI juggernaught is not going to stop. Too many companies competing to turn out the next product and not get left behind. Not to mention competition between the US/West and China. Nobody wants to lose that race to get to Agi first.
Everyone should receive UBI. Then there should be new industries that requires the use of leisure. It'll be interesting to see how that'll develop.
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