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.

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“Well, we need AI to create the super-abundance to support UBI.”

Is that the AI you’re creating? The super-abundance–enabling UBI AI?

Is that how you’re pitching your AI to your enterprise customers?

Show threadMoss WizardApr 12
@maxleibman I think there are two basic categories of these people: grifters who will say anything, and religious true believers. The first group are just liars, and “journalists” today think their whole job is to repeat what they’re told. The second group really does think that the “AI” will solve all of humanity’s problems, it just has to become sentient first, and they think that has to come at *any* cost, no matter how cruel. Journalists think that’s fine because their bosses say so.
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@Moss @maxleibman "the cost is your firstborn" - "whatever it takes bro AGI stonks!"
Apr 12 at 9:36pmWeb