Max LeibmanApr 12

When AI boosters talk about universal basic income to excuse all of the jobs they claim they can eliminate, ask:

“Then why are you working on AI, and not on universal basic income?”

If you are a journalist in this space and you don’t ask this every time UBI comes up, you are not doing your job.

Show threadTimothy Wolodzko
@maxleibman I’d rather ask who would pay the universal income. If AI takes your job and salary, I guess the AI company would pay you, right? They wouldn’t take the money and evade to tax heaven, right..?
Apr 12 at 8:20amWeb
Show threadSteve F.Apr 12
@tymwol @maxleibman this is correct, but it requires the AI company to be owned by the people, not an individual, so that its gains can benefit to everyone. The ages old question of who owns the means of production.