The topics and ideas discussed in this blog are drawn from a book I have under submission to a publisher. The working title is “The Road to Utopia: Automation, Justice, and How to Support Everyone When AI and Robots Create a Post-Work World.” “Utopia” here refers to a world without work, where automation serves us and we […]
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There is a rising tide of anxiety and fear that AI and automation in are about to usher in an era of prolonged high unemployment. We are also in the early stages of a public conversation about how to support everyone who becomes displaced by automation. Some of these proposals come from Silicon Valley CEOs, some from
Let’s imagine a near future in which automation produces intractable unemployment on a massive scale—say, 25% of the potential workforce. Imagine further that this goes on for a long time, that the usual unemployment benefits are merely temporary, and that we have a social crisis on our hands. We will need to provide everyone who is displaced
