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As a consumer, I think this is great. As for its impact on society, I worry. Famous investor Jeremy Grantham said recently "If the government does not smooth o
by hn_throwaway_99 2y ago
As a consumer, I think this is great.
As for its impact on society, I worry. Famous investor Jeremy Grantham said recently "If the government does not smooth out the benefits of AI, you will have either starvation or revolution." Huge numbers of people rely on driving for their income. More importantly, automated driving can only lead to even more concentration of wealth. With human drivers, most of the income generated stays within the community. With automated drivers, most of the income goes to much fewer places and people.
Look, driving is one of those tasks that I actually do believe to be a great thing to be automated away. But given the history of society since the Internet I have 0 confidence that we'll be able to deal with the giant impacts related to further concentration of wealth.
- joshdavham 2y agoI’m also worried about this. I was recently down in San Francisco and was using uber a fair bit (I couldn’t use waymo bc I’m a Canadian without a zip address). It felt weird to be talking to uber drivers while seeing tons of Waymo’s zipping around. There aren’t many jobs that are going to be fully automated away by AI but human uber drivers actually might be and I feel sorry for them.
- whiplash451 2y agoI agree. There might be a fairly "simple" solution to that problem. Let the government tax some % of each ride and use that money to redistribute wealth. (I am not saying it will happen or will be done well)
- renewiltord 2y agoA thing we could do is tax everyone who uses or makes software and give the money to people who used to use paper processes. For example, we could pay DMV workers 10x what they currently make by placing a small $1k tax on everyone in tech in the US.
- Apocryphon 2y agoUBI for DMV
- renewiltord 2y agoHahaha. Yes, from each according to their ability to each according to their lack of ability.