[ExI] AI extinction risk

Tara Maya tara at taramayastales.com
Mon Mar 17 03:13:52 UTC 2014


On Mar 16, 2014, at 6:29 PM, Eugenio Martínez <rolandodegilead at gmail.com> wrote:

> When robot machinery replaces even the slave labour and computer tech replaces professional workers, then the consumer society is finished. People without an income don't buy enough stuff to maintain the current system.

I don't believe this. I see three possible scenarios:

A) AIs are no longer an extension of human will, but supersede it and are possibly antagonistic to it; they won't be doing the jobs people want done, hence, people will still need to do them.

B) Machinery simply extends human will. (As it has always done.) What humans want done expands to accommodate the new possibilities (as it has always done). Since some humans own AIs with certain specialties, and other humans own AIs with other specialties, and they use money to keep track of a complex system of mutual reciprocity ("the economy"). There's a huge number of projects in architecture, engineering, biology, health, and countless other fields that we can imagine but currently can't afford--with AIs these open up for developement.

C) AIs are separate from but not antagonistic to human will (at least not as a collective; individuals might still run amuck on both sides). This case would ooh economically similar to (B ) except that AIs would be sentient, autonomous economic agents as well as humans.

I don't see any of these scenarios making a Humanwide Welfare system either useful or desirable.


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