Mo Gawdat thinks the next 12-15 years will be dark, not because of robots but because of our own “stupidity.”

Somehow, AI is going to be responsible for both dystopia and utopia. But the good news is we have 18 months to get ready!

  • HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 days ago

    If we had a proper social safety net for all the displaced people, I’d be more open to it. But as things are now with rampant greed and a government for the corporations, fuck AI.

    • badgermurphy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      20 hours ago

      I can’t shake the feeling that all this talk of UBI and other social safety nets that are meant to support the majority of the populace after some notional post-work future society ignore a really big elephant in the room:

      If most people are solely reliant on the good grace of a single entity, the government, for their whole means of survival, their entire existence is at the pleasure of that government. The populace becomes completely beholden to them, not the other way around.

      The whole idea feels suspiciously like a trap set by bad actors with a long-term plan to steal the government from the governed.

      • HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        19 hours ago

        I could see your argument if UBI was a recent concept (made by bad actors aimed at fixing today’s problem in order to steal the government from the governed tomorrow), but the concept has been around for a while: wiki article.

        • badgermurphy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          18 hours ago

          Its not so much of an argument as a concern. It puts an extreme amount of the country’s economic activity directly in the hands of the government. We see globally that governments can quickly change their motivations.

          The same rope that can be used to help people out of a hole can be used to tie them up.