‘AI Godfather’ Says AI Will ‘Take Lots Of Mundane Jobs’, Urges UK To Adopt Universal Basic Income

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1. This is why people are nostalgic for the past.

2. wtf is an “AI godfather” lmao

3. Why would anyone introduce UBI in an era of record-low unemployment with no end in sight? If anything, we’re seeing a gradual deterioration of unemployment benefits.

4. There’s no money for UBI. The top few percent own the AI’s, hence all income of the jobs they replaced. Gov would need to tax the rich (owners of AI) more, but we know how that goes.
   All profits of AI will only benefit the rich, there will be no money to pay a UBI. It’s a fucking fantasy.

5. Why introduce UBI now. It will take years, if even at all, the amount of jobs will significantly diminish

6. If I got UBI I would retire immediately. Never gonna happen though. Mad max style future inbound ❤️

7. We’ll see a massive starvation and following violent revolution before an UBI.

8. Product guy tells everyone his product will change everything

9. Man who does thing thinks thing he does is important-news at 11

10. UBI is a fantasy impossible to implement. In case of Poland for UBI to work, almost all of its budget would have to be allocated for it. Limit who can get it, it stops being universal. Limit amount you give, it stops being basic.

    Did AI took anyone’s job yet? Will it?

11. Europe wont have AI anytime soon. We dont have the infrastructure for it or the power plants needed to power it or the ability to even work on it due to high regulations.

    Instead we will just import stuff from the US or China who have AI and will use it to make cheap and/or high quality stuff.

12. UBI will become a reality when the field of robotics is ready. That means that we need to figure out how movement works, how to acquire energy for the robots, advancements in microchips and what kind of microchips because we are slowly getting a new alternative to transistors (photonic microchips PIC). When we will have adequate AI to handle the work without errors or hallucinations. How to acquire materials to construct them at a large scale and how to produce them at large scale.

    You can make a robot now with some human capabilities but to mass produce it, quality drops. It will need to be cheap enough as to be beneficial for a company to replace the human working there. Until now we had specialized robots in factories that don’t move. All they do is preprogrammed movements and they cost A LOT.

    The AI will be ready because it’s the robots that will need to catch up. But when they finally do catch up, we’ll have UBI. A robot can work 24/7, more efficient than any human, more capable than any human and will do everything we want it to without complains. We will have robots making robots and we’ll sit back and get fat while they do everything for us.

    It will happen, the question is when. It will happen sooner than people realize. These markets combined reach trillions. There is a lot of investment going on. I remain optimistic. I know the present is depressing and the future seems like this will continue, but i also know that when you strip away the fear of safety, people are much better to others and i know we’ll reach that for humanity.

13. *This new steam machine will take lots of mundane jobs so we can work less and enjoy hobbies and art*

    *This new computer will take lots of mundane jobs so we can work less and enjoy hobbies and art*

14. As I keep saying, people seem to never talk about *wealth* gains from AI and seen to only talk about jobs.  

    If we talk about wealth or efficiency gains from AI then it gives space for discussions of UBI.  Jobs become less of an issue once we have UBI.  I feel like it’s this fluffing abusive obsession with not taxing the companies that will benefit the most from AI that’s holding us back.

15. UBI might be needed, but if AI can cheaply automate some of the most tedious professions and aid with expertise in a lot of businesses there’s going to be a massive productivity boost.

    AI with engineering expertise assisting someone develop a prototype? Amazing

    Fewer lawyers and admins? Oh… no…

    Don’t be so pessimistic about change.

16. UBI? No thanks. I’d rather watch the AI duopoly catering to a plethora of companies registered on god knows which islands that outsource “AI workers” to everyone in the world, so others just pay a small fee to use their services. Those companies are outside of any remotely regulating jurisdiction and Open AI claims that they have no idea what those companies do, they just provide AI services to businesses, that’s it.

    I think UBI is a fantasy in the world we’re living in, but I’m happy to be wrong.

17. What jobs ?

18. “mundane jobs” such as programing,.. AI is going to fck us all, is gonna be a shit show

19. UBI is an unatendable pipe dream that will never work under capitalism. Revolution will happen before UBI with 1% being dragged onto the streets by poors and their money taken.

20. As someone who have a mundane job; yes please.

21. COVID showed that pumping massive amounts of money into the economy just causes inflation. How is UBI going to be any different?

    Sure, when AI is advanced enough to make stuff for us, then UBI is maybe possible, but now I dont see it happening

22. The problem is the savings from axing those jobs will not make it to the general public. The companies axing the jobs will simply retain the additional profits and continue to avoid paying taxes as much as they can.

    The additional profits these companies make will in no way enable government funding for UBI.

    The real question is what those people will do after being axed. Train and fill skill gaps in the economy? Take other menial jobs? The influx of labour could be a good thing or simply drive wages down across the board.