Expert opinions on Inequality

Market forces will make adoption go faster and faster and, unless we intervene, there will be fewer good jobs available and the benefits will accrue to a small group.

Though a “permanent underclass” is not an imminent reality, in the near term AI could make some people richer and others worse off.

But each time humanity has come out with more people sharing greater prosperity, health, and freedom. We believe this will be true with AI as well, and the abundance of the future can be shared by everyone.

While this may seem dire, none of it is inevitable. The same machines that build drones can build houses and hospitals, and within a decade or so of full automation, it would be possible to extend the living standards of a wealthy American to every h...

If AI delivers even a fraction of its potential, it could generate unprecedented abundance. We could see decades of scientific progress compressed into years, and levels of productivity growth that today seem implausible.

AGI is generally understood as an AI system that can match or exceed human capabilities on most economically valuable tasks. In such a world, the automation of work would not be limited to specific industries or routine jobs. Instead, machines would ...

But each time humanity has come out with more people sharing greater prosperity, health, and freedom. We believe this will be true with AI as well, and the abundance of the future can be shared by everyone.

Eventually, we need some form of universal basic income for everybody while they work and once they retire.

Universal basic income is a policy prescription that those people calling for it tended to believe in years earlier, before they had even heard of AI, and now it fits this scenario. I do not know what the outcomes and therefore the mitigations of AI ...

They present themselves as benefactors, they turn recipients of universal basic income into passive beneficiaries of a system they do not control and, above all, they shift the focus: Instead of questioning the concentration of capital and power, we ...

Eventually, we need some form of universal basic income for everybody while they work and once they retire.

The answer to that fear is to make job loss less scary by building a new unemployment program.