What’s more, many tasks will not be cost-effective for artificial intelligence applications. For example, Amazon’s mechanical program calls for its “access to more than 500,000 workers across 190 countries” and is marketed as a form of “artificial intelligence.” But as repetition indicates, remote workers perform trivial tasks and earn little money.
These workers are not in a position to refuse the job. The danger is that artificial intelligence will only continue to divide our societies—between owners and those who will never own—if we do not overcome the effects. It is not difficult to imagine the social hierarchy of the future in which some nobles occupy a place above the machinery and above a vast new mass of commoners. Meanwhile, as jobs fade, tax revenues will face the same fate, and companies that benefit from artificial intelligence are likely to be ready to support social programs for their former employees.
Instead, we have to do something to make the companies pay more, perhaps through the “Robo Tax” on artificial intelligence applications. We should also find the necessary legislation and regulations to maintain the “humanity” of certain jobs. Indeed, these measures are the reason for the lack of trains without a driver, although it is more smooth than taxis and buses without driver.
Translated from an article by Luciano Floridi
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