“There will be fewer and fewer jobs that a robot cannot do better,” Elon Musk said at Dubai’s World Government Summit in February 2017. “What to do about mass unemployment? This is going to be a massive social challenge. And I think ultimately we are going to have some sort of universal basic income. I don’t think we have any choice.”
My question is: Why build the robots if they will create a “massive social challenge”? It seems to me that the robots are creating a bigger problem than they are solving.
Does anybody honestly think that sidelining millions of workers and then giving them just enough money for food and shelter will not lead to an increase in civil unrest and crime?
What are people going to do with their lives? Sit at home and watch Netflix till they die?
Most people need some kind of purpose in life, some ambition. I do not believe freeing people from doing work for money will turn everyone into poets, artists and philosophers.
Maybe I over thought this. Let the terminators, I mean friendly robots come.