I know it's an idealistic thought and might not be feasible, but I think this approach could be more realistically helpful than a basic income for the coexistence of artificial intelligence and civilization. The basic idea is to impose strict restrictions on companies replacing human employment with AI for commercial use, except in industries that can directly help solve human problems (energy, climate change, environment, medical) or where it's proven impossible to find human employees. Companies would face taxes high enough to offset the profits gained from using AI. Just as people still enjoy watching humans play chess or Go despite AI's superiority, the government should ensure that services provided by humans and products made by humans are given special value.
The problem is that on an international scale, these restrictions could cause countries imposing them to lose their competitiveness in global markets. If the US decides that the healthcare industry doesn’t require AI tools in patient diagnosis, people will flock to using tools created by other countries who don’t face these restrictions. The same way you will never guarantee AI will never be used in military applications or warfare. As long as a single country can use this techno , you bet your ass that others will use it to as well. Every competitive edge matters.
Agree with this, but isn’t there an in between that could work? Require companies to continue to have human employment, but set it to something like a one or two day a week level? This way humans can continue to find some fulfillment through work while having much better WLB, and the AI can get most of the serious work done, causing countries to not lose their competitive edge?
I’d hope for something along the lines as well but as long as other countries or governments don’t match what the US would be doing, it may not motivate any political party here to want to limit AI use across industries. For this reason, I also don’t believe we will ever see a nation-wide 32 hr/week work week as the norm. As long as competitors like China, Russia, India can extract on average 40 hours/week of productivity from their workers, we will also continue to do that here. I know AI is the revolutionary tool that we hope can bring a balance to work and life but I don’t foresee it bringing that level of prosperity to society. I hope I’m wrong as fuck
Terminator - will treat Israel and Iran on a same scale.
AI after analyzing: "Why tf would they pick this spot to put the Jews?"
Yeah continental North America has plenty of open land.