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So John Stewart had a long diatribe last night about AI and how it will destroy jobs. He then had as his guest, the chair of the FTC, Lina Khan talking about antitrust and AI.
While antitrust issues are not at the top of the agenda for most people and their relationship with AI is even further out in left field, I think the impact is too huge to ignore. In fact, AI may fundamentally transform society as we know it. It may take away ALL jobs. Or if not all, so many that work will become scarce and pointless. Maybe art will become the only job worth doing.
Once it really reaches this point, how will capitalism be transformed?
If there’s no value in labor anymore, will everything become free? You want a sandwich for lunch? A robot will grow and harvest the wheat, mill the flour, bake the bread and other ingredients and make you a sandwich. Want to sail around the Caribbean for fun? A robot will mine the materials necessary to build the boat, form the steel, fiberglass and other things and build you a boat. You will learn to sail by a robot teacher, who can take over if it becomes too complicated. In fact you won’t own the boat. What’s the point? You’ll just use it for as long as you want and then give it to someone else to take care of for awhile. You then fly to Vail with a robot pilot to go skiing.
Seems to me that capitalism dies and we have a true communist utopia. Maybe not that good. Maybe AI is used by capitalists, who control our legislature, to effectively return us to serfdom.
I don’t know. But I do see a radical transformation of society and it must be properly controlled or we could find the vast majority of us on the losing side of it.
Here is an interesting article about this:
While antitrust issues are not at the top of the agenda for most people and their relationship with AI is even further out in left field, I think the impact is too huge to ignore. In fact, AI may fundamentally transform society as we know it. It may take away ALL jobs. Or if not all, so many that work will become scarce and pointless. Maybe art will become the only job worth doing.
Once it really reaches this point, how will capitalism be transformed?
If there’s no value in labor anymore, will everything become free? You want a sandwich for lunch? A robot will grow and harvest the wheat, mill the flour, bake the bread and other ingredients and make you a sandwich. Want to sail around the Caribbean for fun? A robot will mine the materials necessary to build the boat, form the steel, fiberglass and other things and build you a boat. You will learn to sail by a robot teacher, who can take over if it becomes too complicated. In fact you won’t own the boat. What’s the point? You’ll just use it for as long as you want and then give it to someone else to take care of for awhile. You then fly to Vail with a robot pilot to go skiing.
Seems to me that capitalism dies and we have a true communist utopia. Maybe not that good. Maybe AI is used by capitalists, who control our legislature, to effectively return us to serfdom.
I don’t know. But I do see a radical transformation of society and it must be properly controlled or we could find the vast majority of us on the losing side of it.
Here is an interesting article about this:
How AI Will Destroy Capitalism
Should we find ways to make capitalism work as we face numerous AI challenges — or should we seek an alternate economic system for the future of humanity?
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