<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 3:20 PM, BillK <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pharos@gmail.com" target="_blank">pharos@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">The Real Threat of Artificial Intelligence<br>
By KAI-FU LEE JUNE 24, 2017<br>
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<<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/24/opinion/sunday/artificial-intelligence-economic-inequality.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/<wbr>06/24/opinion/sunday/<wbr>artificial-intelligence-<wbr>economic-inequality.html</a>><br>
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BEIJING — What worries you about the coming world of artificial intelligence?<br>
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Too often the answer to this question resembles the plot of a sci-fi<br>
thriller. People worry that developments in A.I. will bring about the<br>
“singularity” — that point in history when A.I. surpasses human<br>
intelligence, leading to an unimaginable revolution in human affairs.<br>
Or they wonder whether instead of our controlling artificial<br>
intelligence, it will control us, turning us, in effect, into cyborgs.<br>
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On the contrary, the A.I. products that now exist are improving faster<br>
than most people realize and promise to radically transform our world,<br>
not always for the better. They are only tools, not a competing form<br>
of intelligence. But they will reshape what work means and how wealth<br>
is created, leading to unprecedented economic inequalities and even<br>
altering the global balance of power.<br>
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Unlike the Industrial Revolution and the computer revolution, the A.I.<br>
revolution is not taking certain jobs (artisans, personal assistants<br>
who use paper and typewriters) and replacing them with other jobs<br>
(assembly-line workers, personal assistants conversant with<br>
computers). Instead, it is poised to bring about a wide-scale<br>
decimation of jobs — mostly lower-paying jobs, but some higher-paying<br>
ones, too.<br>
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This transformation will result in enormous profits for the companies<br>
that develop A.I., as well as for the companies that adopt it.<br>
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We are thus facing two developments that do not sit easily together:<br>
enormous wealth concentrated in relatively few hands and enormous<br>
numbers of people out of work. What is to be done?<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">Finland, I believe, is set to try a guaranteed income. Let's see what comes of that. I don't see any way out of it.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"></div><br>
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BillK<br>
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