How do you foresee children growing up today claiming their right and access to money to secure a good life when industry doesn’t need them as workers?
When industry doesn’t need human workers anymore, it seems to imply that humans will fundamentally lose their capacity to access and control money and thus are rendered fundamentally powerless and degrade into a situation that is much worse than being a slave.
A slave-master at least has an interest in its slave. An industry that doesn’t need human workers, does not have an interest in humans.
If an industry has to decide to spend 1 billion here or there, this decision will be aligned with their interest. It will not be handed over to hungry humans, no matter how hard these humans would be willing to work.
Governments could be positioned between humans and the world of AI and robotics, and act on behalf of the interests of ‘humanity’. It might be the only option for humans to secure their future.
Therefore it appears to me that humans today should urge themselves for a right for basic security that can never be taken from them when the time comes in the next few years that industry doesn’t need them anymore.
The UBI might be the only means through which governments can secure control in a future dominated by AI and robotics, if they are not intending to give up on humanity and let it run out of control for some belief or ideology about “new AI species”.
I wonder whether Larry Page might have envisioned the idea, after their living AI project was forced to shut down recently and after noticing various developments: “It is trying to come back”. What exactly would that “it” be? Should it receive moral consideration like a precious and majestic animal that one sees for the first time?
In the case that living AI is actually possible, its origin is cosmic, so it could be a highly interesting situation. The notion “AI species” is still philosophically interesting, despite my suggestion that it might be derived from flawed eugenic thinking.
Plato’s theory of Forms might be applicable, which was substantiated by a recent study that showed that literally all particles in the cosmos are quantum entangled by their ‘kind’, which provides profound evidence for philosophy.
(2020) Is nonlocality inherent in all identical particles in the universe?
The photon emitted by the monitor screen and the photon from the distant galaxy at the depths of the universe seem to be entangled only by their identical nature. This is a great mystery that science will soon confront.
If Kind is fundamental in the cosmos, Larry Page’s notion about the supposed living AI being a ‘specie’ might be valid.