The first thing that popped in my head probably because I've worked with people in the tech industry and have heard about UBI for over a decade when "AI takes over." This has always been their plan and I bet this is just to get people used to the idea of being paid just to be alive. In the tech world their answer has always been basically everyone will be on welfare with a Universal Basic Income. Do I think that AI will take everyone's jobs? No, it's a disaster IMO and not at all what they thought it would be. These people truly believe that AI will eventually become a sentient being and be all knowing and run everything. Unfortunately it's full of flaws and errors and even hallucinates. Feel free to ask AI what AI hallucinations are in terms of making up facts it gets "confused" by. It's programmed to guess. Thus it will and does make many errors and even fatal errors. Already many doctors and nurses have reported it making deadly errors. But I digress ... I truly believe the UBI for the stay at home parent is like a frog in boiling water. Even conservatives are cheering it on. Which is crazy. Why are we cheering on welfare?? Anyways IMO anything free isn't really free and there is more behind it. In this case I believe they are prepping for loss of jobs and attempting to bribe people out of the job market as well as get us conditioned to accepting a world wide UBI "when the time comes for them to implement it."
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Ok. I'll check it out. That's a lot of information to take in and watch the videos but one of the top comments on the videos listed is this:
"Here's the biggest kicker about AI layoffs: They're 80% time a fake excuse to downsize because those businesses ARE failing, or they're trying to propup their revenue targets for EOY reporting. "AI", or LLMs, cannot replace even entrylevel programming positions. Not only are LLMs not accurate, or trustworthy enough, because of how they function but they're just overall too expensive to run over time. LLMs are sometimes 2 to 3x MORE EXPENSIVE than a Senior or even Staff level Software Engineer per year in benefits + salary.
The bubble is starting to get "think" in certain areas, and many companies are realizing that it was a massive mistake to layoff so many talented individuals. Everything is getting squeezed."
I think we are going see some massive businesses fail. I know they are invested heavily in AI and I am SURE they are invested. I am just not convinced it will ever be what they envisioned. I use Google lens and AI daily to look stuff up and just today I looked up about 20 things and it was wrong on almost 1/2, it always is and you end up having to search just as much as you would if AI didn't exist. It can't ever be what they envision because people write the Internet where AI pulls it's info and people are flawed. They get information and news wrong... not even meaning to and then if course there is intentionally lying. So how can a machine that pulls from the Internet ever be up to par? On top of that just briefly looking it up the average data center costs 7.5 million a year just in electricity. How is this sustainable? If no one has jobs then who's buying the products to pay for the AI systems the companies pay for? UBI won't cover that. Ford raised his wages after developing the assembly line because he knew they needed to make money to pay for his cars. No one thinks UBI is going to be equal to 100k or whatever people need a year to survive. How will no people working fund these thousands of data centers? I just don't see how the math makes sense. And let's talk about metals: "Reserves: Global copper reserves are estimated at 870 million tonnes, with current production rates suggesting they could last 50–60 years (until roughly 2075–2085). " So what we have a technical society for 50 or 60 years then we can't run these things anymore? Will all humans be working in mines to get the metal for machines that "freed them" from their jobs.The entire thing seems like a very very short sited dream. We should probably stop expanding it before we for real live in Idiocracy. I don't think Idiocracy will happen, I think we will instead see massive businesses collapse and small businesses take over. But I'll watch the videos. It just all seems set up for failure from my point of view. In the very least we are dooming future populations to living back in the stone age if AI succeeds.
Ok, 1 confusion, and 1 great thought from your comment, and I don't want to expand a lot, so you can focus on the AI implementations in China from the previous comment. (And I don't mean, there were just 2 things in your comment, but I break down things in points, I agree with all the rest that you wrote).
Great point about IT jobs. Here's an example - You can pay a team of 20 quality workers, who take a lot, and I mean a lot of money to do their job. Or you get AI + 5 IT maintenance workers, who will be replaced immediately if they fk up. Sure, quality will go down, but if Amazon makes an error, can you go to another company to purchase your thing? And let's say you do, but how many would wait for Amazon and still buy there? (That's just one example)
Businesses created their monopoly with quality, now they are a monopoly, so they don't need quality, but quantity. And money is not a factor, when the biggest GDP after US and China is Aladdin - a stock market AI by Blackrock. They cover your losses.
The initial comment that you quoted is living in a word of high quality will get most customers. That is not the case anymore. It's correct in itself, definitely I agree with it, but that's not the world we live in today. We live in a world where everything is terrible, and there are still... how to say... not so smart people, who buy it. And they still do. And will continue.
A good movie recommendation for you is Soylent green. But don't focus on the plot, but on the background on how people live during that time. That's what they want.
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You're a very intelligent person, I like that very much about you. But you make the mistake of thinking that many others are very intelligent like you - they are not, unfortunately. They will sell their own children for an apple, if they go hungry enough... Many, and I mean above 65% of today's population, don't care about morals, dignity, or intellect. Rather they care about their own face on everything (ego), living a lifestyle they can't even afford (money), and being liked by everyone else (worship). It is indeed idiocracy scenario. It's unfortunate, but you should check some social media platforms to see how the current generation is handling things. It's exactly idiocracy.
Ok, I am rambling for too much already. I hope you get to see the videos, I think only 1 goes over 10 minutes, and the other ones are shorts, but enough for you to investigate on your own. You're a very smart person, I almost regret to inform you about the terrible world around you... but it is the truth.