I asked 200+ Redditors what goes into a social contract for a world where AI does most of the work. The top answer was a question: who decides?
Over the past two months I posted one question in several Reddit communities: if AI and robots end up doing most of the work, what should go into the new…
By Thomas Harrison
Over the past two months I posted one question in several Reddit communities: if AI and robots end up doing most of the work, what should go into the new social contract? Across those threads, more than 200 replies came back. The thing I heard most was not a rule. It was a question: who decides? Many said the rich and powerful will write the rules anyway. After that, people asked for: – enforcement, so the rules actually bite – a floor so people don't fall during the transition – the right to live without AI – a ban on autonomous killing machines – a voice for people outside rich countries I'm a farmer in my 60s in Korea. I wrote a book about this before I asked. None of these six was in it. That told me something. So I'll ask you: if the answer to "who decides" can't be the rich, who should it be? And what is still missing from this list? submitted …
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