What is the steelman argument, made by AI utopians and optimists, about how people will pay their bills, once AI and humanoid robots make jobs obsolete? For example, in this recent NYT podcast , Nick Bostrom said: You could have the A.I.s and the robots doing basically all economically productive tasks. You then have a leisure society where there is no longer any need for humans to work in order to get a paycheck. He talked a lot about not having to work, but unless I missed it, he didn’t explain how people will pay for rent and groceries. And Elon Musk said : “My guess is, if you go out long enough, assuming there’s a continued improvement in AI and robotics, which seems likely, money will stop being relevant at some point in the future,” he said. Great, but how does this work? What about school tuition, food, rent, health care, how does AI create these things without anyone spending money? If you have a humanoid robot at your house doing all the chores, who buys that and pays for maintenance? submitted by /u/artfellig
Originally posted by u/artfellig on r/ArtificialInteligence