100% agree. Worse, I think you can’t really get to the Star Trek like future and stay there unless you give the people a way to lock it in place and not have their rights taken away. Sam Altman speaks explicitly about “capturing all the value in the world” and redistributing it in the form of UBI but that’s… like… a Saturday morning cartoon supervillain’s plan. “Get all the money and then give it to everyone else, trust me”. Even assuming he is being 100% sincere, you can’t expect things to go that smoothly, or that system to fix the problems of the entire world rather than the US alone, or that he’ll be allowed to do it by those around him, or that he’ll be the one to win the AI race.
This is like a modern version of “just have an absolute monarch and trust that he’ll be an enlightened, wise dude with everyone’s best interests at heart”. There’s a reason why that never worked.
100% agree. Worse, I think you can’t really get to the Star Trek like future and stay there unless you give the people a way to lock it in place and not have their rights taken away. Sam Altman speaks explicitly about “capturing all the value in the world” and redistributing it in the form of UBI but that’s… like… a Saturday morning cartoon supervillain’s plan. “Get all the money and then give it to everyone else, trust me”. Even assuming he is being 100% sincere, you can’t expect things to go that smoothly, or that system to fix the problems of the entire world rather than the US alone, or that he’ll be allowed to do it by those around him, or that he’ll be the one to win the AI race.
This is like a modern version of “just have an absolute monarch and trust that he’ll be an enlightened, wise dude with everyone’s best interests at heart”. There’s a reason why that never worked.