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    Mother Jones‏Verified account @MotherJones 27 Oct 2017

    1/ 🤖 ROBOTS. 🤖 Will they take your job? According to Kevin Drum: Yes. And a lot sooner than you think.http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/10/you-will-lose-your-job-to-a-robot-and-sooner-than-you-think/ …

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      2. Mother Jones‏Verified account @MotherJones 27 Oct 2017

        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. Mother Jones‏Verified account @MotherJones 27 Oct 2017

        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. Mother Jones‏Verified account @MotherJones 27 Oct 2017

        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. Mother Jones‏Verified account @MotherJones 27 Oct 2017

        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. Mother Jones‏Verified account @MotherJones 27 Oct 2017

        6/ If you don’t trust the research, take it from tech CEOs themselves.

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      7. Mother Jones‏Verified account @MotherJones 27 Oct 2017

        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. Mother Jones‏Verified account @MotherJones 27 Oct 2017

        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. Mother Jones‏Verified account @MotherJones 27 Oct 2017

        9/ Automation will also likely make inequality even worse: corporations and the rich will be the first to benefit.

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      10. Mother Jones‏Verified account @MotherJones 27 Oct 2017

        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. Mother Jones‏Verified account @MotherJones 27 Oct 2017

        11/ Despite all this, AI and the coming loss of jobs is barely on the American political radar.

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      12. Mother Jones‏Verified account @MotherJones 27 Oct 2017

        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. Mother Jones‏Verified account @MotherJones 27 Oct 2017

        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. Mother Jones‏Verified account @MotherJones 27 Oct 2017

        14/ Schmidt, of Google's Alphabet, doesn’t see the government doing much to help.pic.twitter.com/CVytMt3Aq3

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      15. Mother Jones‏Verified account @MotherJones 27 Oct 2017

        15/ AI is something we need to take seriously.

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      16. Mother Jones‏Verified account @MotherJones 27 Oct 2017

        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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      1. Elle‏ @UHElle 27 Oct 2017
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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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      1. eSEy Bee‏ @eSEy_Bee 27 Oct 2017
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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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      2. Leoncio Estevez‏ @lwestevez 27 Oct 2017
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        Not my job. I program robots 👨🏻‍💻Maybe one day they'll be able to do it but by then the human species may be near extinction, anyway.

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      3. WallHaxx Media  🌹 🌻 🐦 🌽  🏴‍☠️ 🏳️‍🌈 🏴Ⓐ  🌳 🍄 🌵‏ @WallHaxx 28 Oct 2017
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        Deep learning will hurt your employment a lot sooner than you think.

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      2. jmc‏ @jmc321qwe 27 Oct 2017
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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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      3. jmc‏ @jmc321qwe 27 Oct 2017
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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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      4. jmc‏ @jmc321qwe 27 Oct 2017
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        RICH DO NOT CREATE JOBShttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKCvf8E7V1g&feature=share …

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