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Techno-feudalism and the rise of AGI: A future without economic rights?

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207 points lexandstuff | 2 comments | 05 Jul 25 21:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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VikRubenfeld ◴[06 Jul 25 02:46 UTC] No.44477409[source]▶
Is a future where AI replaces most human labor rendered impossible by the following consideration:

-- In such a future, people will have minimal income (possibly some UBI) and therefore there will be few who can afford the products and services generated by AI

-- Therefore the AI generates greatly reduced wealth

-- Therefore there’s greatly reduced wealth to pay for the AI

-- …rendering such a future impossible

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zaptrem ◴[06 Jul 25 02:55 UTC] No.44477457[source]▶
Alternatively:

-- In such a future, people will have minimal income (possibly some UBI) and therefore there will be few who can afford the products and services generated by AI

-- Corporate profits drop (or growth slows) and there is demand from the powers that be to increase taxation in order to increase the UBI.

-- People can afford the products and services.

Unfortunately, with no jobs the products and services could become exclusively entertainment-related.

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heavyset_go ◴[06 Jul 25 06:22 UTC] No.44478291[source]▶
The most likely scenario is that everyone but those who own AI starves, and the ones who remain around are allowed to exist because powerful psychopaths still desire literal slaves to lord over, someone to have sex with and to someone to hurt/hunt/etc.

I like your optimism, though.

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1. int_19h ◴[06 Jul 25 07:10 UTC] No.44478515[source]▶
People who are about to starve tend to revolt.
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2. mrob ◴[06 Jul 25 09:40 UTC] No.44479204[source]▶
If you can build an AGI then a few billion autonomous exploding drones is no great difficulty.