Humans need: - Water - Food - Clothing - Shelter - Healthcare ...to survive. Humans also need: - Friends - Hobbies - Sense of Purpose ...to thrive.

Humans need: - Water - Food - Clothing - Shelter - Healthcare ...to survive. Humans also need: - Friends - Hobbies - Sense of Purpose ...to thrive. The real threat of AI isn’t just that it might make human labor obsolete. The deeper danger is that it could strip away people’s sense of purpose-the feeling that what they do matters. Joblessness is an economic issue. And economies are human-made. We can redesign them. Purposelessness is a human issue. And if we don’t address that, no amount of UBI or retraining will fix the emptiness that follows.