Artificial intelligence will create new kinds of work
“When the first printed books with illustrations started to appear in the 1470s in the German city of Augsburg, wood engravers rose up in protest. Worried about their jobs, they literally stopped the presses. In fact, their skills turned out to be in higher demand than before: somebody had to illustrate the Growing number of books.
Fears about the impact of technology on jobs have resurfaced periodically ever since. The latest bout of anxiety concerns the arrival of artificial intelligence (AI). Once again, however, technology is creating demand for work. To take one example, more and more people are supplying digital services online via what is sometimes dubbed the “human cloud”. Counter-intuitively, many are doing so in response to AI…”
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http://www.impactlab.net/2017/09/03/artificial-intelligence-will-create-new-kinds-of-work/
Get real! The market demand for human labour is going towards zero in the coming decades. The rate of new high paying jobs slips, while Jobs forever lost to robots and algorithms rise. Sure if you are in a luxury business and price is not an issue you may choose to employ humans, but if you compete on price and quality as is the reality for most of the economy you will be driven towards laying off less produktive and expensive humans in favor of algorithms or robots.
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Jan-Erik Vinje Yes, and that’s exactly the point. Let the robots take over the jobs that humans need not do, tax the companies that use robots (as Bill Gates, among dozens of business leaders, proposes), implement a universal basic income to replace the current welfare system and save billions a year (as Elon Musk, among dozens of other tech leaders, proposes), and free everyone’s time for the important things in life, which we will get paid extra on top of the UBI for that lend value to our society – things like spending time with and nurturing your families, spending time in and nurturing community building projects, nurturing hobbies that can be turned into new businesses, all the things we wait for ‘retirement’ to do, that we, in all seriousness, should be doing all our lives, and that, more and more, technology is allowing us to do.
Soon we will be 3d printing, at a fraction of the cost, in our own homes, most of the stuff that we are used to buying (including 3d printing our very homes for a fraction of the cost, which is happening already), creating our own currency on a trusted blockchain ledger, free of any centralized banking control and inflation, to account for all transactions securely and in accordance to nothing but market value (already happening), eating from an abundance of food being grown locally in urban and vertical farms built right into the buildings (already happening), and so on.
The future paradigm is different than the past, and that’s what we’re building for.
More ‘work’ + less ‘jobs’ = more life.
Essentially the whole point of every technology since the discovery of the flint stone.
So we don’t have to ‘get real’ when all of this stuff…literally ALL of it…is not only already becoming more and more ‘real,’ but it all already exists.
Don’t believe me? Google everything I claim.
As with anything, some will jump on board, some won’t. But, well…so goes evolution…
Wasim Muklashy i believe universal basic income is highly likely and probably a good choice in transitional phase to avoid enormous social distress and conflict, however in a longer peespective old school money, including Fiat money from central banks, bitcoins and gold will start fealing as obsolete and out of touch with the needs of modern society as horse based transportation. What I would suggest as a replacement for the one dimensional pricing capacity of money is a multidimensianal price representing energy, resource use and ecological footprint of each product and service that is “traded” in the economy. The universal basic income consist should consist of an equally multidimensional amount of consumable sustainable levels of energy, resource and eco system available for the individual to consume. While material wealth might be gained above the base level it needs to be limited in total amount and must be based only on wealth created without negative externslities on our energy supply, resource supply and ecosystems