Stuart Russell
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first heard Dec 2018
last heard 24 Jun
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But where do we get the money?
Right?
If we are not producing anything, then we don't have any money unless there's some redistribution mechanism.
And as you mentioned, so universal basic income is
It seems to me an admission of failure.
Because what it says is, okay, we're just going to give everyone the money and then they can use the money to pay the AI company to lease the robots to build the school.
And then we'll have a school and that's good.
But it's an admission of failure because it says we can't work out a system in which people have any worth or any economic role.
So 99% of the global population is, from an economic point of view, useless.
That's a very interesting question.
If it's either or,
Either I do it now or it's too late and we careen into some uncontrollable future.
Perhaps, yeah.
Because I'm not super optimistic that we're heading in the right direction at all.
Well, here's what I think should happen.
So obviously, you know, I've been doing AI for 50 years.
And the original motivations, which is that AI can be a power tool for humanity, enabling us to do more and better things than we can unaided.
I think that's still valid.
The problem is
The kinds of AI systems that we're building are not tools.
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