> The first is the fear of job loss, and I feel like this is the most straightforward to deal with. Personally, I think the solution should be to share the productivity of AI with society at large, in particular since AI owes most of its abilities to training on the works of society.

This is straightforward? This is a colossal task. Monumental. Billionaires own it. That’s the political status quo. You could build something to counter those centers of power. But from what base?

Well-paid software developers have scoffed at or been ignorant of worker organizing for, maybe forever? But I have good paycheck and equity... Now what?

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cortesoft 15 hours ago | parent [-]

'Straightfoward' as in there is a clear way to solve the issue, not that it will be easy to enact it.

	▲	happytoexplain 13 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		But it's not a clear way to solve the issue. UBI, even if enacted tomorrow, doesn't stop the enormous crash of the middle-class, and the fallout of that. Maybe it will stop some people from literally dying - that's "solved"? It's a small buffer at the very worst end of a gigantic problem. The word "solve" is totally ridiculous.
	▲	keybored 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Okay you’re right. In some sense of the word it is straightforward. But I still think it is not straightforward compared to most things. I can get more muscle mass at the gym. That is straightforward. Only a few things makes it not easy. But “share the productivity with society at large”... you have to collapse so many more variables. - How to organize political resistance against AI tech billionaires - How to not get co-opted by counter-measures by AI tech billionaires - How to resist false promises (backed by nothing) that some AI tech billionaire will enact UBI for everyone so everything will be fine (those with all the power can withdraw whatever they want at any point) - How to deal with white collar competition in the interim period before automation: everyone using AI and nodding along with it[1] just to not “fall behind” - How to potentially fight against a small minority (AI tech billionaires) but that now might have enough megawatts to turn their stochastic parrots against any dissenters And maybe more. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904777