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Big Tech gleefully describes wrecking entire industries as “disruption” and its head honchos love the idea of pushing government welfare. When you’re wiping out middle-class jobs and replacing them with Amazon warehouse work or Doordash gig driving, well it makes perfect sense to urge politicians to implement lots of welfare, not to mention free health care, and suicide kits to accompany people through their new dystopia.
Now that AI is booming, it’s time to revive another call for a total welfare state for the permanently unemployed.
The computer scientist regarded as the “godfather of artificial intelligence” says the government will have to establish a universal basic income to deal with the impact of AI on inequality. Professor Geoffrey Hinton told BBC Newsnight that a benefits reform giving fixed amounts of cash to every citizen would be needed because he was “very worried about …
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