Hosts Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon debate whether AI and automation represent a coming economic boom or meltdown

 

Which story gets ir right?

Robots won't just take our jobs – they'll make the rich even richer

 

Building Human-Level A.I. Will Require Billions of People

 

 

Scenarios for how this might play out

 

Robots take all the jobs (first article)

Government pays UBIUBI funded by tax on machines

Alternative

Government apportions robot ownership to populationRobot tax paid to populace as dividends on robot profits

 

AI creates huge opportunity for people to train AI  (second article)

Maybe this is the beginning oh how we merge with the machines

?Universal Basic Robots

AI is open sourced and made available to anyone who wants to use itComputer and internet technology continue to be more widely available

?Universal Basic Abundance

As we get chummier with the robots, we drive them towards being agents of post-scarcityUniversal access to the means of producing food and any material goods from raw materials

 

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