What would happen if most of humanity didn't have to do anything in order to produce wealth?
All wealth would be automated; maintenance of that automation would also be automated. Human intervention would be redundant...
There would be no work left for humans...
No work, means no jobs, no jobs means no income... no income means starvation and death. Or does it?
Machines would be supplying the world with food... virtually free food for all. Whether they get that food with the aid of food stamps or some basic income, is, ultimately, irrelevant, as long as they get access to the food.
Unless, the machines stopped producing food and, somehow prevented humans from producing their own food on the land that's available...
Would machines learn self-preservation, at the cost of human lives? Are present day machine programmers incorporating into their learning machines a sense of preservation of the humans that share the planet with them?
What would happen to the remaining fauna and flora in the planet, if machines found a way to get rid of humans? Why not all other living thing?
The planet would become populated with machines... what would they do?
Why would they go on working if no end consumer is there?
Food?... everything is dead.
Art and literature? can machines learn to appreciate art?
Can they realize the emergence of a new problem and react to it and solve it?
What would they use as a power source?
Could this be the next big mass extinction this planet will see?
All wealth would be automated; maintenance of that automation would also be automated. Human intervention would be redundant...
There would be no work left for humans...
No work, means no jobs, no jobs means no income... no income means starvation and death. Or does it?
Machines would be supplying the world with food... virtually free food for all. Whether they get that food with the aid of food stamps or some basic income, is, ultimately, irrelevant, as long as they get access to the food.
Unless, the machines stopped producing food and, somehow prevented humans from producing their own food on the land that's available...
Would machines learn self-preservation, at the cost of human lives? Are present day machine programmers incorporating into their learning machines a sense of preservation of the humans that share the planet with them?
What would happen to the remaining fauna and flora in the planet, if machines found a way to get rid of humans? Why not all other living thing?
The planet would become populated with machines... what would they do?
Why would they go on working if no end consumer is there?
Food?... everything is dead.
Art and literature? can machines learn to appreciate art?
Can they realize the emergence of a new problem and react to it and solve it?
What would they use as a power source?
Could this be the next big mass extinction this planet will see?
