Revisiting the Robot Good News / Bad News

Published: March 7, 2017, 12:30 a.m.

b"Hosts Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon debate whether AI and automation represent a coming economic boom or meltdown\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nWhich story gets ir right?\\n\\nRobots won't just take our jobs \\u2013 they'll make the rich even richer\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nBuilding Human-Level A.I. Will Require Billions of People\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nScenarios for how this might play out\\n\\n\\xa0\\nRobots take all the jobs (first article)\\n\\tGovernment pays UBIUBI funded by tax on machines\\nAlternative\\nGovernment apportions robot ownership to populationRobot tax paid to populace as dividends on robot profits\\n\\xa0\\nAI creates huge opportunity for people to train AI \\xa0(second article)\\n\\tMaybe this is the beginning oh how we merge with the machines\\n\\n\\t\\t?Universal Basic Robots\\n\\tAI is open sourced and made available to anyone who wants to use itComputer and internet technology continue to be more widely available\\n\\n\\t\\t?Universal Basic Abundance\\n\\tAs 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\\n\\xa0\\n\\nWT 274-583"