Wulfy—Speaker to the machinesThis is a #risk assessment of ALL the professions in #Australia exposed to #Ai job losses.
Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐RE: https://ohai.social/@Garwboy/116076407482330366
Why just artists, though? Why not #UniversalIncome for All? #UBI
Elon Musk has claimed that super-intelligent AI could usher in an era of "universal high income".
"Everyone will have the best medical care, food, home transport and everything else. Sustainable abundance," he enthused.
The guy who thinks empathy is an illness that needs to be eradicated would have you believe he's going to turn full Philanthropist...
... Go look up #darkenlightment the #oligarchs would sooner convert people into biodiesel or fertiliser than give them #universalincome
Flipboard Tech DeskAs artificial intelligence takes jobs from office workers, drivers and others, where is the fabled universal income that was promised as part of an AI utopia?
@WSJ explores what Elon Musk, Sam Altman and others have said on the subject.
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#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #UniversalIncome #ElonMusk #SamAltman #Technology
Aurianne OrNo to piecemeal solutions, let’s change the system: https://www.aurianneor.org/no-to-piecemeal-solutions-lets-change-the-system/
#action #agriculture #armament #aurianneor #challenges #democracy #ecology #education #elections #environment #Europe #half-measures #humanrights #longterm #measures #multi-billionaire #nononsense #reforms #results #solutions #stability #system #systematicapproach #transport #ultra-rich #universalincome
tâniaI just started reading this today and I’m already liking the critique of the new Left and folk politics at the beginning.
#universalincome #NickSrnicek #AlexWilliams #postcapitalism #FolkPolitics
DoomsdaysCW#Degrowth can work — here’s how science can help
Wealthy countries can create prosperity while using less materials and energy if they abandon #EconomicGrowth as an objective.
By Jason Hickel, Giorgos Kallis, Tim Jackson, Daniel W. O’Neill, Juliet B. Schor, Julia K. Steinberger, Peter A. Victor & Diana Ürge-Vorsatz, 12 December 2022
Excerpt: "The global economy is structured around growth — the idea that firms, industries and nations must increase production every year, regardless of whether it is needed. This dynamic is driving climate change and ecological breakdown. High-income economies, and the corporations and wealthy classes that dominate them, are mainly responsible for this problem and consume energy and materials at unsustainable rates.
"Yet many industrialized countries are now struggling to grow their economies, given economic convulsions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, resource scarcities and stagnating productivity improvements. Governments face a difficult situation. Their attempts to stimulate growth clash with objectives to improve human well-being and reduce environmental damage.
"GDP is getting a makeover — what it means for economies, health and the planet
"Researchers in ecological economics call for a different approach — degrowth. Wealthy economies should abandon growth of gross domestic product (#GDP) as a goal, scale down destructive and unnecessary forms of #production to reduce energy and material use, and focus economic activity around securing human needs and well-being. This approach, which has gained traction in recent years, can enable rapid #decarbonization and stop ecological breakdown while improving social outcomes. It frees up energy and materials for low- and middle-income countries in which growth might still be needed for development. Degrowth is a purposeful strategy to stabilize economies and achieve social and ecological goals, unlike recession, which is chaotic and socially destabilizing and occurs when growth-dependent economies fail to grow.
"Reports this year by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (#IPCC) and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on #Biodiversity and #Ecosystem Services (#IPBES) suggest that degrowth policies should be considered in the fight against #ClimateBreakdown and #biodiversity loss, respectively. Policies to support such a strategy include the following.
"Reduce less-necessary production. This means scaling down destructive sectors such as #FossilFuels, mass-produced meat and dairy, #FastFashion, #advertising, #cars and aviation, including #PrivateJets. At the same time, there is a need to end the #PlannedObsolescence of products, lengthen their lifespans and reduce the purchasing power of the #rich.
"Improve #PublicServices. It is necessary to ensure universal access to high-quality #HealthCare, #Education, #Housing, transportation, Internet, #RenewableEnergy and nutritious food. #UniversalPublicServices can deliver strong social outcomes without high levels of resource use.
"Introduce a green jobs guarantee. This would train and mobilize labour around urgent social and ecological objectives, such as installing renewables, insulating buildings, regenerating #ecosystems and improving social care. A programme of this type would end unemployment and ensure a just transition out of jobs for workers in declining industries or 'sunset sectors', such as those contingent on fossil fuels. It could be paired with a #UniversalIncome policy.
"Reduce working time. This could be achieved by lowering the retirement age, encouraging part-time working or adopting a four-day working week [and hybrid or remote work]. These measures would lower #CarbonEmissions and free people to engage in care and other welfare-improving activities. They would also stabilize employment as less-necessary production declines.
"Enable #sustainable development. This requires cancelling unfair and unpayable debts of low- and middle-income countries, curbing unequal exchange in international trade and creating conditions for productive capacity to be reoriented towards achieving social objectives.
"Some countries, regions and cities have already introduced elements of these policies. Many European nations guarantee free health care and education; Vienna and Singapore are renowned for high-quality public housing; and nearly 100 cities worldwide offer free public transport. Job guarantee schemes have been used by many nations in the past, and experiments with basic incomes and shorter working hours are under way in Finland, Sweden and New Zealand.
"But implementing a more comprehensive strategy of degrowth — in a safe and just way — faces five key research challenges, as we outline here."
Read more:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04412-x
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/AtJ87
#FourDayWorkweek #RemoteWork #HybridWork #CircularEconomy #CapitalismKills #RightToRepair #ProtectMotherEarth #CorporateColonialism #BuyLess #BuyNothing #LibraryOfThings #SolarPunkSunday
Ambassador of the Heat SinkAt the same time, the existence of the generative AI models dramatically increases the number of creators existing in the world, as we must now count the flesh-made, human creators, as well as the, newly spawned, AI creators.
This creates an issue for the financial livelihood of the human creators, who are now competing with many more actors on the creative market.
The issue is compound by the fact that, in what constitutes a kind of mixed human-silicon teamwork, human creators also benefit from the AI tools. Teams made only of humans already existed in the pre-AI world, but now the AI creators participate in the mix, thus increasing both the number of these teams and their creative capability.
We really need to come up with a solution that maintains the existence of human creators.
I think that the universal income is among the acceptable solutions, but there must be a way to factor in the creativity or popularity of the creators to increase their pay.
NoFearNoFurther
David WakehamTreating people with #dignity and #respect? Allowing people access to housing, healthcare and education.
You know, it’s just that crazy it might just work!
#auspol #BreakTheDuopoly #UniversalIncome #Disabled #UniversalHealthcare
