What's our cosmic or evolutionary imperative? Is it preserving human dominance, or paving the road to greater understanding and manipulation of the universe, even if it means ceding control to superior artificial intelligence, rendering humans secondary?
These aren't mere theoretical musings or cocktail party chit-chat anymore. I clicked on an article (https://bloom.bg/3JP4TJc) intrigued by a mention of Universal Basic Income (UBI) resurfacing in headlines, but what riveted me was its concluding thought:
"๐๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ด๐ค๐ถ๐ด๐ด ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ช๐ต ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฏ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ด๐ต ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ๐ช๐จ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ต," ๐ฉ๐ฆ (๐๐ฐ๐ง๐ต๐ฃ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ) ๐ด๐ข๐ช๐ฅ. "๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐๐ข๐ฑ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ช๐ต๐ด ๐ฆ๐ง๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฐ ๐๐."
The expected response to the specter of superhuman AI would be caution or restraint. Assuming nothing is lost in translation or editorial rearrangements, the juxtapositions of the statements suggest a divergent philosophical core.
As pointed out in one of my previous posts (https://bit.ly/3OLEDSY), assuming a global consensus on AI ethics is naive. During the Covid pandemic, international coordination was practically nonexistent despite a unanimous end goal - controlling the virus. Climate change is another case in point. While there's a concord on protecting our future, there's discord on the immediate impacts and, indeed, no unity on policies. With AI, there might even be disagreement on the end goal, as many may not see the advent of far superior intelligence as a negative.
Japan and China are taking the AI bull by the horns with their targeted strategies. From dialogues about long-term self-sufficiency to mergers and product announcements, they underline this innovation race's global and intensely competitive essence. The article also broaches the socialization of AI benefits through mechanisms like Universal Basic Income, or UBI, which appears oddly incongruous amid fervent debates about inflation and bond yields. However, if AI triggers mass job losses as feared, the ensuing economic and political shockwaves could push UBI and similar proposals to the forefront of debate in major economies and markets. https://bit.ly/2TkW7b7 has a different, albeit dated, perspective on UBI's counterpart MMT.
