Kaushik Basu: why artificial general intelligence poses structural risks to society as we know it
· livemint.com
It could render vast numbers unemployed and deprived of livelihood. Even a universal basic income wouldn’t make up for the extreme concentrations of wealth and power it could cause. We must think hard about all this.
While individual discoveries like the atomic bomb can be destructive, the thinking goes, science as a whole, which gives us a deeper understanding of nature, is...