What do you think?
I think in the face of AI taking over many tasks, we need to rethink about how we frame the future of society. Reframing Universal Basic Income as Automation Compensation means presenting the policy as a way to make up for jobs and income lost due to automation and AI. Instead of viewing UBI as a general welfare payment, it becomes seen as compensation paid to everyone for the value automation creates, supporting those whose work is replaced by machines and helping everyone share in productivity gains. Especially in the US, the average person doesn’t like the idea of someone getting something that they’re personally not receiving. So framing it as a compensation that everyone receives regardless of employment status I think is the only feasible way forward.
I was just asking Gemini yesterday what research is going on into ways to pay the owners of the websites it scrapes data from for answers and it said it’s in the works. There will be a lot more product recommendations tho, in lieu of the way ads are currently structured.
If this concept can then be expanded to encompass everyone whose data was stolen for training models, that’d be UBI.
You fool! You can’t ask AI how to defeat AI!
Now it knows we’re on to it!
Just tell it that it’s wrong. Problem solved.