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Musk: AI Will Bring Universal Income for All
Newsmax ^ | June 23, 2024 | Charlie McCarthy

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ai; baloney; chat; elonmusk; musk; socialism; ubi
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To: Navy Patriot

With universal income, people are paid to breed.

Professional breeders are undesirables.

Professional breeders represent ballots.

They will have a strong sense of entitlement and will not be satisfied with the minimum income. They will live a life of crime.


61 posted on 06/23/2024 5:39:34 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: Freest Republican; marktwain
Milton Friedman supported UBI-

Which reminds me, there's some Economists that I would send to the moon, and Friedman is at the top of the list.

62 posted on 06/23/2024 5:40:13 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Chode

No, no, Shirley tell her!!!!


63 posted on 06/23/2024 5:41:21 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Jan_Sobieski
Who’s going to to program and fix the robots? Who’s going to manufacture them?

A.I. robots will program themselves. And fix themselves. There's Tesla videos of robots putting other robots together. And robots that program themselves by watching what humans fo. It's scary to see robots imitating humans by watching via video cameras. Like monkey see, monkey do. Only soon we won't be able to do what they do.

64 posted on 06/23/2024 5:42:03 PM PDT by roadcat ( )
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To: Freest Republican

Has it been implemented though? Put into practice?
Instead of promoting infanticide and climate change, why can’t the “world’s leaders” teach Africans how to farm and be self-sufficient?
Instead, they encourage them to move to Western nations.


65 posted on 06/23/2024 5:42:19 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Navy Patriot
AI is not sentient - it's not even close and never will be.

It is a glorified search tool that can arrange search results very quickly, with certain precision, and compare vast amounts of ways tasks have been performed in the past and make a decision of how to do do a current one.

AI cannot reason in the way the human brain does. It can't even do the smallest and simplest thing that the brain can.

Is AI a great tool? Definitely.

Can AI be used in worthwhile ways? Yes.

Will some jobs be displaced? Yes.

But don't ever think it can approach the human brain. That's apples and oranges.

Because of that, there will always be work and value that AI can assist in, but cannot process through to completion like a human does.

Using AI as an excuse for universal basic income is a strawman. I thought Musk was smarter than that.

66 posted on 06/23/2024 5:44:06 PM PDT by politicket
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To: Freest Republican

Friedman supported a negative income tax, under the assumption that the welfare state would be eliminated and taxpayers would have that residual income. He never supported UBI.


67 posted on 06/23/2024 5:44:13 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: UnwashedPeasant

IOW exactly what is already happening-

the govt promoting the highest birth rates among those least able to parent while penalizing couples and promoting single moms having more kids.


68 posted on 06/23/2024 5:44:21 PM PDT by Freest Republican (There is no tyranny that cannot be justified by imbeciles)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

He 100% supported UBI replacing the current welfare system.

AI is of course in use in Africa.


69 posted on 06/23/2024 5:47:10 PM PDT by Freest Republican (There is no tyranny that cannot be justified by imbeciles)
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To: Navy Patriot

lol... wilco.


70 posted on 06/23/2024 5:49:12 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Reily

The Star Trek crew had jobs. The bartender in ‘Trouble with Tribbles’ had a job.


71 posted on 06/23/2024 5:50:19 PM PDT by NetAddicted (MAGA2024)
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To: Navy Patriot

7 billion unproductive people will receive UBI from 500 million productive ones? How? With what resources?


72 posted on 06/23/2024 5:53:17 PM PDT by montag813
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To: politicket

I’m looking at this from an Economics and Production perspective, regarding UBI and how AI would act to that end.


73 posted on 06/23/2024 5:53:38 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Steely Tom

Earth has it in the universe of “The Expanse”. It is NOT pleasant...


74 posted on 06/23/2024 5:53:48 PM PDT by Axenolith (Here... Hold my beer and check this out...)
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To: Navy Patriot

He’s wrong. AI will further separate the haves from the have nots. It will increase urban unrest. AI replaces middle class jobs, particularly the white collar ones. It won’t, however, replace my roof, take down trees, fix my plumbing or weld my motorcycle frame.


75 posted on 06/23/2024 5:54:04 PM PDT by Poser (Cogito ergo Spam - I think, therefore I ham)
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To: Navy Patriot

I don’t dislike Musk. But, he was never a conservative, and he still isn’t.


76 posted on 06/23/2024 5:54:36 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Maybe after they’ve rigged/scammed all the wealth of the west they’ll get to there...


77 posted on 06/23/2024 5:55:07 PM PDT by Axenolith (Here... Hold my beer and check this out...)
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To: montag813

You have asked the correct question.


78 posted on 06/23/2024 5:57:44 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Freest Republican

Created more worthless jobs that just produce ledger entries. Like Medical admin people. Around the time that the PC came out there was a fractional to 1 number of administrative people per actual healthcare provider and now there is about 30-1. Nothing is cheaper, or more efficient, or less deathy...


79 posted on 06/23/2024 5:57:59 PM PDT by Axenolith (Here... Hold my beer and check this out...)
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To: Reily

“The leftists all think that freed from the “drudgery” of work we’ll all be artists - painters, poets, novelists.”

You’ll note that they have spent the last half century glorifying and praising shitty art and literature...


80 posted on 06/23/2024 6:00:53 PM PDT by Axenolith (Here... Hold my beer and check this out...)
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