I'm personally skeptical on the ability of machine learning/neural networks to fully replace humans. I think it's more likely that it will boost productivity by performing the more simple and routine tasks, but there will still be the need for human touch. People will lose jobs because now a professional will be able to do the work of 2 professionals, but AI won't do the work of all professionals.
Well it won't be replacing humans anytime soon but many jobs sure as hell are going to be replaced by AI. At the start there will be need for humans to oversee AI and work as a fail safe,
but this is not just about AI:s taking jobs. Every disruptive technology always makes some jobs obsolete and often some new jobs are invented because of it. I can remember people talking about blockchain taking out the middle man as a good thing. Being a middle man is someone's job as well.
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The fact is that a guaranteed basic income does not solve the main problem - people need not only to be fed, but also to give them the meaning of life. This is an existential problem!
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Do you think that only paid jobs can give people meaning to life?
How about getting your meaning of life by being a decent human being and helping others?
By raising your kids and having more time with them?
Work on your emotional issues so you can be more stable and don't have as much issues with others.
There are ton of things in the field of self improvement you can work on if you don't have a job or other work to do.
Yes, I agree with you.
However, I am not sure that this is how geopoliticians who develop methods for managing large groups of people think. Do these people really think that the world needs a large number of honest and decent people with a lot of free time? I'm not sure.
For example, on a warship, it is believed that at any given moment the sailor should be busy with some business. Idleness on the ship is unacceptable!
Many politicians in non-democratic countries also believe that people should be constantly engaged in the struggle for existence. It can be a war with the enemy or hard, exhausting work under capitalism.
If a person is busy competing in a large company, then he no longer has time and energy left for a revolution and attempts to overthrow the existing government.