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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 3971219" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p><a href="https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/automation-may-not-boost-worker-income-by-robert-skidelsky-2019-02" target="_blank">The AI Road to Serfdom? | by Robert Skidelsky</a></p><p></p><p>But a future patterned along the lines suggested by Autor has a disturbingly dystopian implication. It is easy to see why lovely human jobs will remain and become even more prized. Exceptional talent will always command a premium. But is it true that lousy jobs will be confined to those with minimal skills? How long will it take those headed for redundancy to up-skill sufficiently to complement the ever-improving machines? And, pending their up-skilling, won’t they swell the competition for lousy jobs? How many generations will have to be sacrificed to fulfil the promise of automation? <strong>Science fiction has raced ahead of economic analysis to imagine a future in which a tiny minority of rich rentiers enjoy the almost unlimited services of a minimally-paid majority.</strong></p><p></p><p>The optimist says: leave it to the market to forge a new, superior equilibrium, as it always has. <strong>The pessimist says: without collective action to control the pace and type of innovation, a new serfdom beckons</strong>. But while the need for policy intervention to channel automation to human advantage is beyond question, the real serpent in the garden is philosophical and ethical blindness. “A society can be said to be decadent,” <a href="http://www.opencourtbooks.com/books_n/heretical_essays.htm" target="_blank">wrote</a> the Czech philosopher Jan Patočka, “if it so functions as to encourage a decadent life, a life addicted to what is inhuman by its very nature.”<a href="https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/automation-may-not-boost-worker-income-by-robert-skidelsky-2019-02##" target="_blank">2</a></p><p></p><p>It is not human jobs that are at risk from the rise of the robots. It is humanity itself.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 3971219, member: 56035"] [URL="https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/automation-may-not-boost-worker-income-by-robert-skidelsky-2019-02"]The AI Road to Serfdom? | by Robert Skidelsky[/URL] But a future patterned along the lines suggested by Autor has a disturbingly dystopian implication. It is easy to see why lovely human jobs will remain and become even more prized. Exceptional talent will always command a premium. But is it true that lousy jobs will be confined to those with minimal skills? How long will it take those headed for redundancy to up-skill sufficiently to complement the ever-improving machines? And, pending their up-skilling, won’t they swell the competition for lousy jobs? How many generations will have to be sacrificed to fulfil the promise of automation? [B]Science fiction has raced ahead of economic analysis to imagine a future in which a tiny minority of rich rentiers enjoy the almost unlimited services of a minimally-paid majority.[/B] The optimist says: leave it to the market to forge a new, superior equilibrium, as it always has. [B]The pessimist says: without collective action to control the pace and type of innovation, a new serfdom beckons[/B]. But while the need for policy intervention to channel automation to human advantage is beyond question, the real serpent in the garden is philosophical and ethical blindness. “A society can be said to be decadent,” [URL='http://www.opencourtbooks.com/books_n/heretical_essays.htm']wrote[/URL] the Czech philosopher Jan Patočka, “if it so functions as to encourage a decadent life, a life addicted to what is inhuman by its very nature.”[URL='https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/automation-may-not-boost-worker-income-by-robert-skidelsky-2019-02##']2[/URL] It is not human jobs that are at risk from the rise of the robots. It is humanity itself. [/QUOTE]
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