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And just as the end of the loom was a good thing in the end, so would ai that is that powerful. It would be hugely disruptive of course. Self driving, ai (LLMs), agi, robotics all have the potential to put huge amounts of people out of work, relatively quickly. If we allow the companies to have power, they will take the benefits for themselves. If we take it for society, we all win. This is why it’s so important we have co petition and also why it’s important we seriously talk about things like minimum wages, living wages and UBI. When the jobs are already gone, it’s already too late,
if you dedicate society to inventing a technology that makes people superfluous, it makes zero sense to keep them alive. It’s not a viable political project
Tech that harms us never good
A. I is harmful to every thing humans touch
As is usual with anything humans touch
Yes, only this income will be digital and every purchase you make will be tracked, as a result at any moment they can simply block your account for disobedience or suspicious activity and eventually you will die of hunger, unless you rob someone.