Changing my Mind about AI, Universal Basic Income, and the Value of Data
Added 2019-05-30 22:27:23 +0000 UTCHello good humans!
I've been in heads-down work mode for the past two months writing this piece: https://theartofresearch.org/ai-ubi-and-data/
It's about AI and the value of data, and why the pairing of AI and Universal Basic Income is attractive on the surface but has some deep problems (particularly regarding general respect for humanity). I also wanted to explain the motivation behind some of the work I've been doing with M Eifler and Jaron Lanier.
The piece seems to have kept growing and growing, needing just a little more research on this or that (60 footnotes!), and I'll admit I've been working more hours than I should have recently. I've also been ignoring anything else involving typing (emails, posting here) partly because I kept allocating all my time to the piece (in constant "just one more push and it'll be done" mode) and partly because all the typing means no hands left for other typing tasks. I gotta give them a break now.
I'm curious what you think. With such a long piece covering such big topics there's sure to be things I missed or got wrong, but hopefully it's at least useful and interesting.
I'll be back with more updates before long! Thanks for sticking around.
Vi
