In a world of truly transformative AI, automating 10 or 20 or perhaps even 100 percent of human labor, work requirements go from cruel to some combination of cruel, bizarre, and silly. They’d be like if Congress were, today, to pass a dedicated law setting labor standards for horse-and-buggy drivers. Imagine telling folks in a world of transformative AI “you have to work to get food stamps.” Work? What work? Unemployment is 30 percent and rising, what are you even talking about?
They want 90% of the population living in third world poverty, slaving at dead end service jobs, or as office drones at shit wages and no benefits.
If they’re not stopped, that’s exactly our future. And there’s no one to stop them.