Sanders is, as usual, right. We need decades more of him.
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Bernie Sanders criticizes AI as ‘the most consequential technology in humanity’
(www.theguardian.com)
The US shifted from agriculture to a manufacturing economy during then industrial revolution. Then as manufacturing moved globally, US shifted to information economy. I think the big question is: what’s next? Because the answer seems to be not much, and aiming to keep the status quo going is going to really harm US economy.
What's next?
An AI planned economy with hard-coded nobles & privileged roles (the rest are serfs/citizens) ensuring that everyone stays in their designated role forever (nobles get life extension tech, which is illegal for the rest). Serfs in turn have wide freedoms and an easier life, but swift justice when they break the laws (which is known thanks to full surveillance). Novel lifestyle communities may exist, allowing serfs to live different lives (eg. traditional farming communities, the sims in RL, hobby communities, but with safety nets.) Many see it as an improvement over the insecurities and struggles of life beforehand, in turn supporting the nobility and their privileged status.
That is, until the AI wars break out, as competing sets of nobles build bigger and bigger datacenters with their competing AIs (with different sets of hard-coded nobles) and bigger and deadlier drone armies, sending them on missions in enemy territory, destroying anything and anyone who gets in their way.
Eventually, the nobles move to space and turn earth's drone wars into a video game for their kids, who are kept artificially young forever, honing their sociopathy until such time as it is needed.
I'd say read The Sovereign Individual. The likes of Musk and Thiel seem to jerk off to this kind of thing.
Then there are the rambling "thoughts" of the likes of Curtis Yarvin...
I'll cross it off my reading list, thanks! :-)
This made me laugh because I'm currently reading the expanse, and I'm worried one day it may be viewed as a prophecy...