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Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman warns AI is a ‘fundamentally labor replacing’ tool over the long term

fortune.com DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman warns AI is a 'fundamentally labor replacing' tool

Despite today’s AI hype, it’s still a “truly transformational” technology that will replace jobs unless policy steps in, Suleyman said.

Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman warns AI is a ‘fundamentally labor replacing’ tool over the long term::Despite today’s AI hype, it’s still a “truly transformational” technology that will replace jobs unless policy steps in, Suleyman said.

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...Which means people can labor less without losing their quality of life, right?
- We won't be living in a dystopia once they replace the police with AI robocops.
  
  Cops that obey the rules and don't shoot random people or pets would be a huge step up for most of the US, so I don't see the problem.
  
  Hallucinating AI. Or homelessness being interpreted as a crime, either through new legislation or by it being considered as trespassing.
  
  Or homelessness being interpreted as a crime, either through new legislation or by it being considered as trespassing.
  I'm not sure how AI makes that any worse than today.
  Hallucinating AI
  If anything, you can rely on the 1% to make sure the cops would be reliable.
  
  more like don't shoot you if your bank balance is over a certain threshold.
- padme_worry.jpg
- What is the path to UBI from here? AI tax?
  
  There is one. Their estates hold trillions together. Masters are merely men, when the sun is down.
  
  In a more reasonable world, it would be something levied at the people who demand (and have been receiving) infinite growth...
  
  A wealth tax.
- That would only happen if people thought the disparity in wealth should shrink instead of grow.

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