2/ Researchers predict that by the 2020s, AI will replace routine tasks such as folding laundry & digging ditches. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.08807.pdf …
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3/ Rich countries will lose 5 million jobs to robots by 2020, according to the World Economic Forum.https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/5-million-jobs-to-be-lost-by-2020/ …
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4/ In the US alone, 38% of all jobs are “at high risk of automation” by the early 2030s. https://www.pwc.co.uk/economic-services/ukeo/pwcukeo-section-4-automation-march-2017-v2.pdf …
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5/ And by 2060, nearly all jobs will be gone. For the vast majority of jobs, work as we know it will come to an end.pic.twitter.com/R1PRgFSSjN
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6/ If you don’t trust the research, take it from tech CEOs themselves.
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7/ Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said that “AI is a fundamental risk to the existence of human civilization.”http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/10/why-elon-musk-is-sounding-the-alarm-on-artificial-intelligence/ …
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8/ Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, believes AI is coming faster than we think.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyfI_8ucZPA …
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9/ Automation will also likely make inequality even worse: corporations and the rich will be the first to benefit.
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10/ Maybe that’s why AI has renewed interest in ways to re-distribute wealth, such as universal basic income.http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/10/we-already-have-a-solution-for-the-robot-apocalypse-its-200-years-old/ …
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11/ Despite all this, AI and the coming loss of jobs is barely on the American political radar.
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12/ When the Obama White House released a report on the future of AI, less than a page discussed economic impacts.https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2016/10/12/administrations-report-future-artificial-intelligence …
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13/ Treasury Sec. Steven Mnuchin waved off AI as a threat to jobs, saying it’s “not even on my radar screen.”https://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/24/mnuchin-treasury-secretary-ai-automation-comments.html …
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14/ Schmidt, of Google's Alphabet, doesn’t see the government doing much to help.pic.twitter.com/CVytMt3Aq3
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15/ AI is something we need to take seriously.
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16/16 If Trump’s victory was aided by disgruntled working-class voters, then we’ll see an even bigger backlash when they start losing jobs.
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And this is why we should AT LEAST explore a Universal Basic Income! A little security goes a long way toward Innovation.
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Truth is Japan is steaming forward at amazing developement of Robots, out of desperate NEED for workers World employers WILL take advantage
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Not my job. I program robots
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Deep learning will hurt your employment a lot sooner than you think.
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WILL THE ROBOTS BUY WHAT THEY PRODUCE.?? IF NO ONE HAS A JOB OR MONEY THEIR PRODUCTS WILL DIE. OR WILL THE RICH MONEY HOARDERS BUY THEM.??
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HOW DID WE GET TO INCOME INEQUALITY.?? 1944-1963 - THE FEDERAL TAX FOR THE RICH WAS 90% AFTER THE FIRST $250,000 https://files.taxfoundation.org/legacy/docs/fed_rates_history_nominal_1913_2013_0.pdf …
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ROBOTS.