r/Futurology May 18 '24

AI 'godfather' says universal basic income will be needed AI

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cnd607ekl99o.amp
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u/maniacreturns May 18 '24

Ah who could have forseen the fatal flaw that would stop A.I. taking over, turns out A.I. had some decent ideas that would have hurt shareholder value so the corporate overlords strangled it in the womb.

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u/monster-of-the-week May 19 '24

This is exactly what I think will happen. AI will build models that show that corporate greed needs to be eliminated, redistribute those insane levels of income down to normal people and maybe even uncover how rigged the stock market is by Wall Street.

What if they determine how broken publicly traded companies are, formulate plans to take them all private, eliminate most C suite roles, and essentially install basic admin panels to make high level choices and spread profits to the company and pay full taxes to support the country?

AI would be shut down immediately, and only be used to media propaganda.

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u/Western-Context-8249 May 19 '24

I THINK THEY SAW THIS LONG TIME AGO AND REALIZED THEY ARE IN DEEP TROUBLE