The robots are coming to kill us all.
The co-founder of a Google-owned AI lab DeepMind thinks so at least, and he’s a pretty credible source.
Mustafa Suleyman said at a conference, “Unquestionably, many of the tasks in white-collar land will look very different in the next five to 10 years. There are going to be a serious number of losers [and they] will be very unhappy, very agitated.”
While Goldman Sachs estimated that AI could add a 7% increase in GDP in ten years, it may drive income inequality into hypermode. Goldman Sachs said AI progress would also put 300 million jobs at risk. Yikes.
Suleyman also hopped on the universal basic income bandwagon as a way to save humanity.
May be overly generous, may be the only thing keeping bread in Americans mouths.
Low wage workers are already experiencing this with automation. Think McDonald’s and other fast food joints. But Suleyman says there’s a new batch of workers who are next, who create an even bigger tax bracket. That’s knowledge based workers like accountants, software engineers, architects, and gulp, writers. Looks like I’ll be moving to Mexico in the next few years and living off the fat of the land. Wish me luck.
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