AI could give us our lives back – if we don’t blow it
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<p>Could we be at the beginning of a change never before seen by humans – allowing us to escape the drudgery of work?</p><p>The other day I pulled into the parking lot of a client’s offices and in the spot next to me was a woman sitting in her car blasting music. She caught me looking and rolled down her window and said, “I’ll be inside in a minute … Just enjoying my last few moments of freedom!”</p><p>Is this way we want to live? No, it’s not.</p> <a href=
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AI could give us our lives back – if we don’t blow it Gene Marks Could we be at the beginning of a change never before seen by humans – allowing us to escape the drudgery of work? T he other day I pulled into the parking lot of a client’s offices and in the spot next to me was a woman sitting in her car blasting music. She caught me looking and rolled down her window and said, “I’ll be inside in a minute … Just enjoying my last few moments of freedom!” Is this way we want to live? No, it’s not. Elon Musk recently predicted work will be optional. “It’ll be like playing sports or a video game or something like that,” he said. Sounds nice. We may well be at the beginning of a change never before seen by humans, mainly because it will be so fast. In just a few short years, it’s clear that AI will be replacing millions, maybe hundreds of millions, of jobs. According to Musk, “Anything digital, anyone sitting at a computer producing files, that’s what goes first.” People are terrified about losing their jobs. But should we be? Let’s assume that AI does have the effect that some like Musk are predicting. Millions of jobs are replaced by agents. Countless office workers are upended by bots placing orders, reconciling accounts, sending out emails, replying to messages, applying cash receipts, writing proposals, creating invoices and doing all the other things that office workers have been doing for more than century. Let’s also assume that Musk’s other prediction comes true: because of the abundance created by AI, there will be some type of universal income. According to Musk, and others, companies will be so productive and so profitable, governments will simply tax a greater share of corporate earnings and then redistribute those taxes back to the people. Putting aside the very real human ability to screw up such a concept and turn any fair system into an unfair one, the assumption is that most people will have enough income to afford both necessities and luxuries without h...
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