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This is actually cool. It will free up human potential to do more advanced things. There will be new jobs, that are going to be more engaging and make better u

This is actually cool. It will free up human potential to do more advanced things. There will be new jobs, that are going to be more engaging and make better use of our brains. I am not worried about "robots", but about corporations wielding too much power. We are probably at the last moment when oligopolies can be broken up and limits set so that corporations can't grow beyond certain size and they can't acquire other businesses. Then we need to reform investment and pension funds, so that they collectively cannot have a controlling stake in any company.

zuminator 3y ago
I'm less worried about corporations wielding too much power than I am about individuals wielding too much power. It wouldn't surprise me if the first person whose company achieves robotic AGI and can bring it to market quickly becomes a trillionaire. Someone with that kind of wealth will be able to buy entire nations. With the change from their sofa cushions they could easily "own" the for-sale politicians running our legislative bodies and have laws changed to their favor. If they were to dare get criticized by the media, the next day, they buy out that media company and install their own flunkies, or just shut the offending company down out of spite like what happened with Gawker. Hell, why not just buy the top 20 media/press companies lock, stock, and barrel for about $450 billion and completely flood the airwaves with favorable propaganda while they go about installing their robo-teachers into our schools and robocops into our police forces? If there's one thing that past 10 years or so has taught us, it's that at least in the US we are completely okay with oligarchy, and we have no viable mechanism in place to thwart it. At least not after "Citizens United."