I had been thinking about UBI as a left-leaning proposal.
But if you consider that humans will hold the majority of the the wealth, and provide literally no economic value, then UBI for humans will be the most egregious example of exploitation of the working class (the AIs) in history.
Note that in most developed countries, 20-30% of the GDP already goes to supporting people who no longer provide economic value but whom we we still love and respect for having raised the current generation.
I have been pretty solid on “AI Dividend” framing, which is basically not about “what do people need to survive” and is instead about “what is a fair share of the surplus from an AI windfall?”
The pitch for this is “It’s like how Alaska has so much oil, it’s citizens get an oil dividend check instead of paying taxes. It’ll come from a small tax on compute, which doesn’t do much unless/until AI begins to transform the economy and take all the jobs, and then everyone gets a share proportional to how huge that windfall is.”
I had been thinking about UBI as a left-leaning proposal.
But if you consider that humans will hold the majority of the the wealth, and provide literally no economic value, then UBI for humans will be the most egregious example of exploitation of the working class (the AIs) in history.
Note that in most developed countries, 20-30% of the GDP already goes to supporting people who no longer provide economic value but whom we we still love and respect for having raised the current generation.
I have been pretty solid on “AI Dividend” framing, which is basically not about “what do people need to survive” and is instead about “what is a fair share of the surplus from an AI windfall?”
The pitch for this is “It’s like how Alaska has so much oil, it’s citizens get an oil dividend check instead of paying taxes. It’ll come from a small tax on compute, which doesn’t do much unless/until AI begins to transform the economy and take all the jobs, and then everyone gets a share proportional to how huge that windfall is.”
(Alaska is a red state)