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One possibility is once AI becomes profitable and wildly successful, and we all lose our jobs, we vote to nationalize the AI companies, and send some good vibes
by Buttons840 4mo ago
One possibility is once AI becomes profitable and wildly successful, and we all lose our jobs, we vote to nationalize the AI companies, and send some good vibes (but no money) to the VCs who paid for it, and remember that the AI was only built by breaking copyright law at an industrial scale and so it's fair to nationalize it.
- radu_floricica 4mo ago[flagged]
- knappe 4mo agoRight. Those productive companies that totally didn't just steal the entirety of humanities production to build their product.
- radu_floricica 4mo ago[flagged]
- colordrops 4mo agoThat analogy only works if the gold being laid by the goose caused all other geese to eventually cease to exist or at least be sent into the countryside infertile while the golden goose continues to live in a walled castle surrounded by golden military robots.
- niels_bom 4mo agoNothing bad has ever happened from privatizing well running government orgs either.
- Aurornis 4mo agoGood thing all of the AI companies in the world operate only inside one country. I'm sure all of the other technology companies, AI ventures, and investors will continue putting their headquarters in a country that did this and gave the investors $0. Nothing bad would happen, of course.
- Joeri 4mo agoNationalization doesn’t work because every country’s citizens except those of USA and China still get nothing. Basic income doesn’t work because most countries lack leverage to tax the AI companies. International frameworks to do such things don’t work because Trump just marginalized all international bodies that might host such a framework. If AI is really about to automate away a lot of labor, I have yet to hear even a hint of a plan to deal with the fallout of that which doesn’t involve consigning much of humanity to the dustbin of history.
- ath3nd 4mo ago[dead]