Mother Jones writer Kevin Drum argues in a longish piece that AI improvement has gone exponential , and mass technological unemployment is nigh — if it isn’t starting already. So policymakers better start seriously considering a rich variety of responses: universal basic income, new taxes on smart robots, high taxes on rich humans, and AI-robot nationalization. It all certainly makes for interesting speculation. And stories about stunning advances, such as AlphaGo Zero, give such speculation a degree of weight.
But that’s as far as it goes, or at least should go. I wish Drum had given more time to experts […]
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