Unfortunately, I don’t see this changing in time to prepare for a huge upcoming change in the form of AI + humanoid robots putting hundreds of millions or billions of people out of work. AI+bots will be a gigantic tech improvement and could improve things by a huge amount very rapidly, but by essentially doing NOTHING to prepare for the unemployment, it will likely be a disaster that certainly does not HAVE to occur.
How politicians just ignore this worst case scenario is super frustrating. It’s hard to imagine most countries being able to pivot their entire approach to keeping their citizens alive, not to mention just ‘not miserable’ fast enough, if they keep on doing nothing for a few more years. It’s mind boggling that somehow they don’t realize how fast this change will occur compared to previous seismic shifts. They must have advisors who are supposed to bring up important issues, I would think.
I guess politicians simply don’t want massive rapid change to happen, to such an extent that it always seems best to them to just pay attention to the short term gratification. I wish they would accept that it’s not up them whether massive changes occur or not.
Unfortunately, I don’t see this changing in time to prepare for a huge upcoming change in the form of AI + humanoid robots putting hundreds of millions or billions of people out of work. AI+bots will be a gigantic tech improvement and could improve things by a huge amount very rapidly, but by essentially doing NOTHING to prepare for the unemployment, it will likely be a disaster that certainly does not HAVE to occur.
How politicians just ignore this worst case scenario is super frustrating. It’s hard to imagine most countries being able to pivot their entire approach to keeping their citizens alive, not to mention just ‘not miserable’ fast enough, if they keep on doing nothing for a few more years. It’s mind boggling that somehow they don’t realize how fast this change will occur compared to previous seismic shifts. They must have advisors who are supposed to bring up important issues, I would think.
I guess politicians simply don’t want massive rapid change to happen, to such an extent that it always seems best to them to just pay attention to the short term gratification. I wish they would accept that it’s not up them whether massive changes occur or not.