Why would losing money, “consolidate power for the GOP”? The only people that matter to the GOP are the ones that stand to lose money. Their interests come first. The peasants will do as they’re told, regardless.

Why would they take a loss, when they can just make their customers pay for it instead?

Because the point isn’t to actually “fix” anything.

No. Unfortunately, they don’t. But, they SHOULD!

If AI can replace so many people that there aren’t jobs for them all, wouldn’t that also mean AI is producing enough to sustain those people, jobs or not?

Unfortunately, that isn’t what’s happening. AI isn’t “producing” anything that people need to survive. It’s just replacing people. We aren’t seeing any net gains to society that would be able to support so many people no longer being needed in the workforce.

If they were training AI to produce food, build housing or anything that people actually need more of right now, I would say you are absolutely correct to assume that people would be just fine with this transition. But that’s not what they’re using AI for.

Optimistically, AI could and definitely should be used for those things…and the logical conclusion would be to implement a form of UBI so that we can all benefit from this. But do you honestly see that happening?

I don’t. And I think that’s what OP is also seeing. We aren’t ready, as a species, to make that transition yet. There isn’t even the slightest intention on behalf of our current leadership, of providing for an entire population of jobless people. They will ultimately be left to fend for themselves. And as it stands right now, society isn’t equipped to function with that kind of excess population.

It’s not necessary about their “value” to society. People need to eat in order to survive. That means having a way of supporting themselves. Having no way of supporting themselves means a lot of people are going to die.

I’d say that’s a net negative to society.

And the problem runs deeper than “retraining” or “upskilling”. With the emergence of technologies that replace human workers…there will simply be a massive excess of unemployed workers hitting the market. Period. Skills or not. Where are they going to work, when there are now ten people applying for every available job?

Lol! What the actual fuck? No.

How do gorillas, chimpanzees and humans all exist at the same time?

This is why you can’t have rational conversations with Americans.

But I thought they just made it illegal to regulate AI? Oh, wait…that was just for the states. Fuck those guys.

How does anyone consider him a “genius”? This guy is just so stupid.

It’s only weird until you realize they aren’t talking about your “personal” security. They couldn’t care less about you.

Can we just not?

Orbital habitats with rotational gravity.

Fake nails.

Maybe they aren’t including the time spent scrolling. It’s just the sphincter flexing moments that count.

Whelp. It appears I am a robot. I guess I don’t get to find out what my fellow boys are up to. smh.

(Edit)… apparently I can’t even spell “bots” correctly. I’m failing all the tests today.

Turns out, the government is actually pretty efficient.

Cheese.

It dissolves…but into what? Sounds like a recipe for a petroleum salt water mix that’s probably just as toxic as melted plastic, unless all the petroleum is removed.