A UBI of AI or compute kind of makes sense to me under safe superintelligence. I don’t know if AI companies will still be incentivized to sell AI if they can just use it themselves, but a state isn’t under the same incentives. Instead of centralizing the use of its AI systems, it could distribute access to all citizens so they can use it productively themselves.
Why not just give people money so they can use it to pay for compute? I guess it’s a matter of which option you expect to lead to the most productive and freedom-promoting outcome for everyone in the long term. A UBI of AI access helps ensure that people receive a directly useful productive resource, and could reduce their dependence on cash transfers once they become rich enough from using AI productively.
This scenario assumes it’s possible for superintelligence to remain an assistant, on guardrails, to each individual.
A UBI of AI or compute kind of makes sense to me under safe superintelligence. I don’t know if AI companies will still be incentivized to sell AI if they can just use it themselves, but a state isn’t under the same incentives. Instead of centralizing the use of its AI systems, it could distribute access to all citizens so they can use it productively themselves.
Why not just give people money so they can use it to pay for compute? I guess it’s a matter of which option you expect to lead to the most productive and freedom-promoting outcome for everyone in the long term. A UBI of AI access helps ensure that people receive a directly useful productive resource, and could reduce their dependence on cash transfers once they become rich enough from using AI productively.
This scenario assumes it’s possible for superintelligence to remain an assistant, on guardrails, to each individual.