Revisiting the Robot Good News / Bad News

Hosts Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon debate whether AI and automation represent a coming economic boom or meltdown
 

Which story gets ir right?

Robots won't just take our jobs – they'll make the rich even richer
 

Building Human-Level A.I. Will Require Billions of People
 

 

Scenarios for how this might play out
 

• Robots take all the jobs (first article)
  • Government pays UBI
  • UBI funded by tax on machines

Alternative

• Government apportions robot ownership to population
• Robot tax paid to populace as dividends on robot profits

• AI creates huge opportunity for people to train AI  (second article)
  • Maybe this is the beginning oh how we merge with the machines
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• Universal Basic Robots
  • AI is open sourced and made available to anyone who wants to use it
  • Computer and internet technology continue to be more widely available
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• Universal Basic Abundance
  • As we get chummier with the robots, we drive them towards being agents of post-scarcity
  • Universal access to the means of producing food and any material goods from raw materials

 
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