I mean, being against AI is not really a long-term solution. It’s just pushing the can further down the road. Eventually, a lot of jobs will be lost anyways, due to conventional automation that has already happened the last 200 years. Progress is not an infinite story. It brings us from A to B and once we’re there, it’s the end of progress. Without progress, there are very few jobs, and there’s absolutely no way that there’ll be enough jobs for everybody in 30 years from now, AI or no AI. i don’t see the protests against AI changing anything at all about that, even if they were effective (which they are very clearly not btw).
Really we need to find a way to organize society around something else than perpetual work. Only then can we find peace. I propose formulating laws around a society using universal basic income or some equivalent thereof (such as universal basic services). Just write a proposal for these laws, because only once there are meaningful proposals, we can actually demand politicians to implement them. So just start thinking about it now. The sooner, the better.
All of this sounds delusional, neither the corporations nor the government care about their people. the jobless will be bulldozed like the people in gaza and lebanon, the kind of necropolitics that have been happening in the global south for decades are coming for the west.
The people driving AI are the kind of people that have amassed hundreds of billions while paying their workers as little as possible.
Do you really think they will work towards a universal basic income?
They’re even admitting it. Sam Altman was saying something like “yeah big disruption is coming and society will have to find a way to deal with it”. In other words “I’ll profit but good luck with your fucked up society, no help from me there”.
I mean, being against AI is not really a long-term solution. It’s just pushing the can further down the road. Eventually, a lot of jobs will be lost anyways, due to conventional automation that has already happened the last 200 years. Progress is not an infinite story. It brings us from A to B and once we’re there, it’s the end of progress. Without progress, there are very few jobs, and there’s absolutely no way that there’ll be enough jobs for everybody in 30 years from now, AI or no AI. i don’t see the protests against AI changing anything at all about that, even if they were effective (which they are very clearly not btw).
Really we need to find a way to organize society around something else than perpetual work. Only then can we find peace. I propose formulating laws around a society using universal basic income or some equivalent thereof (such as universal basic services). Just write a proposal for these laws, because only once there are meaningful proposals, we can actually demand politicians to implement them. So just start thinking about it now. The sooner, the better.
All of this sounds delusional, neither the corporations nor the government care about their people. the jobless will be bulldozed like the people in gaza and lebanon, the kind of necropolitics that have been happening in the global south for decades are coming for the west.
The people driving AI are the kind of people that have amassed hundreds of billions while paying their workers as little as possible.
Do you really think they will work towards a universal basic income?
They’re even admitting it. Sam Altman was saying something like “yeah big disruption is coming and society will have to find a way to deal with it”. In other words “I’ll profit but good luck with your fucked up society, no help from me there”.
probably, if we let it simmer for a few more years. an UBI would actually be good for the economy. they’re “growth-oriented” (greedy), not stupid.