Europe will face mass unemployment without ownership of AGI

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  Jerry Kaplan

  Futurist and AI scholar, Stanford fellow

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  These are very powerful technologies, just as those machines in the 1940s were very powerful in terms of their ability to do calculations. What this will do is create a great deal of wealth. The question is, who gets that wealth? The problem is this... more Unverified source (2016)

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  Jeremy Rifkin

  American Economic and Social Theorist, Author, Political Advisor

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  The fact is that we're ending mass wage labor. This is what's going on with all the companies I've been working with. Mass labor is disappearing forever. Even if you retrained the entire workforce of Europe so that they would be qualified for these ... more Unverified source (2005)

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  Richard B. Freeman

  Harvard labor economist

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  Without ownership stakes, workers will become serfs working on behalf of the robots’ overlords who own the companies and corporate capital. […] If human workers own a stake in the capital gained from the technologies that are changing the world of wo... more Unverified source (2015)

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  Emmanuel Macron

  President of France

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  I think artificial intelligence will disrupt all the different business models and it’s the next disruption to come. So I want to be part of it. Otherwise I will just be subjected to this disruption without creating jobs in this country. So that’s wh... more Unverified source (2018)

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  Mark Cuban

  Entrepreneur and investor

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  We have to win the robotics race. We are not even close right now. […] Which means we are going to face the fact that, if nothing in the States changes, we will find ourselves dependent on other countries for almost everything that can and will be ma... more Unverified source (2017)

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  Jensen Huang

  Nvidia cofounder and CEO

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  A country can outsource a lot of things, but outsourcing all of your intelligence makes no sense. Intelligence is too foundational. … Intelligence comes from the data of your country. The data of your country belongs to your country. It’s your people... more Unverified source (2025)

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  Andrus Ansip

  Former EU digital chief, ex-commissioner

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  Despite all the studies, I do not think anybody really knows the degree to which jobs are affected by digital change. I do not believe in the mass unemployment scenario. It is very easy to blame robots. Sometimes people forget that by helping with r... more Unverified source (2017)

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  Sahra Wagenknecht

  German politician, former Left leader

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  It is a popular misconception to believe that technological development destroys jobs. The organization of work is a social matter. If, thanks to modern machines, we need less time to produce food and other goods, then that opens up attractive perspe... more Unverified source (2016)

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  European Central Bank

  EU central bank and research publisher

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  AI is thus a general-purpose technology that can automate work in virtually every occupation. It stands in contrast to other technologies such as computerisation and industrial robotics, which only allow a limited set of tasks to be automated by impl... more Unverified source (2023)

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  Philippe Aghion

  French economist, growth scholar

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  And the fear is that the AI revolution might create mass unemployment because it make a number of jobs redundant. We can now automate tasks that we would never have thought we would automate. And for example, generating images, synthesis of notes, ev... more Unverified source (2024)

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