One of these days someone asked me “How a super AI would be most useful for mankind?”
My answer: AI would be able to set up some hypothetical sceneries for modern society in order to forsee the future, ...
One of these days someone asked me “How a super AI would be most useful for mankind?”
My answer: AI would be able to set up some hypothetical sceneries for modern society in order to forsee the future, since normal ‘free capitalism’ is destroying democracy.
This is how I imagine it could be:
Scenery 1: keep everything as it is now, with Trump's tax reform, with profits over people, endless wars (for oil) and with money in politics (big corporations make laws so they can do everything at will to gain more profits, polluting the environment, paying starving wages and sending jobs to other countries with even less regulations).
Probably things will continue as they are now: more and more people living on the streets, people work 2 or 3 jobs but even so not being able to pay for healthcare nor proper education for their kids, people that can't get sick because they'll lose money (or even get fired), medicine prices drastically up because big pharma bought politicians so they can deregulate drug’s market, etc. In other words, 'fuck the poor', they are only modern slaves working to increase profits for the shareholders, so they can afford another, and another luxury yacht. AI would show the result after 50 years on this path. People would freak out in terror.
Scenery 2: change a few things to redistribute some wealth so ordinary people can live with dignity. The rich and super rich will still be very wealthy, but the normal people will have some basic rights, like job security, a 'living' minimum wage, paid vacations, paid parental leave, cheap health care (like in Canada), free tuition. Regulate corporations so they don't abuse their power over people and respect the environment. Set incentives to renewable energy companies so they grow faster.
With oil being less important, wars would be less important, so the trillions spent killing people would help to pay for all this, plus a new tax reform to increase tax on rich people, like in Sweden. AI would run this scenery for 50 years. People would see rich people still as rich as fuck, but the ordinary people would be taken care of. No people living on the streets, everyone having the opportunity to study and getting better jobs, the planet's environment taken care of. People would say "This is not so bad".
And this information AI would provide would be then used as a moral compass for society in general.
I'll let some interesting links here... food for thoughts...
Tax cuts for the rich are stupid (by billionaire):
https://youtu.be/pPe5xYBP0D8
50 Billionaires BEG for tax increase:
http://fortune.com/2016/03/22/millionaires-raise-taxes/
Real life Gordon Gekko says Bernie Sanders is good for the economy:
https://youtu.be/__9m-vK23sI
