Adapting to Automation: Collaboration with AI and Basic Income for All

This article is a summary of a YouTube video "IA : Après la "fin du travail"" by Philoxime

TLDR Automation threatens jobs and income distribution, but workers can adapt by requalifying and collaborating with AI, while state intervention and a basic income for all can soften the impact and allow for a rethinking of our relationship to work in a world where machines are taking over.

Automation and the Future of Work

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The rise of AI in various professions could potentially lead to automation and disruption, including in fields such as communication, copywriting, journalism, development, and customer service.
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AIs are developing abilities that were once believed to be typically human, leading to humans being reduced to being mere appendages of the machine.
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Automation can complement human labor by increasing its value, rather than just replacing jobs entirely.
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The distinction between "routine" and "non-routine" tasks no longer holds water with the new wave of Machine Learning-based AIs that discover patterns and perform tasks in their own way, unrelated to what humans do.
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The emergence of multimodal models in AI training could lead to AIs with a better understanding of how the world works.
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Can we say with certainty that all tasks performed by human workers can never be automated?
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As automation continues to advance, it is likely that some of us will not be able to acquire the specific abilities that would enable us to compete with machines.

Economic and Social Implications of Automation

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What if the economists' reassuring answer about technological unemployment was wrong and we really live in a world with high structural unemployment?
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The question of taxing wealth in a world where productivity gains from automation mainly benefit the owners of capital cannot be ignored, and a robot tax is one way to address this issue.
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Capitalism has an inherent bias towards increased production and consumption rather than leisure time, according to Marxist philosopher Jerry Cohen.
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Capitalism, despite bringing society to the threshold of abundance, is the economic form least disposed to relieve labor and reduce working time.
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The reduction of working time can be seen as a means of combating global warming and promoting a more sustainable society.
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Researchers Philippe Van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght are promoting the idea of a basic income, which has been defended in several books.

Collaboration with AI

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We must learn to collaborate with AI and find sectors where it can be complementary to us, rather than being afraid of it.

Timestamped Summary

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Automation threatens various professions as AI technology advances rapidly.
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Automation may change the type of work and create new jobs, but the role of humans as the most important factor of production is bound to diminish with the development of computing and automation.
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Despite economic growth, questions remain about job quality, greenhouse gas emissions, and worker displacement, while economists deny structural technological unemployment caused by automation and new AI can learn even non-routine tasks.
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Automation may lead to a dual economy with a small number of wealthy proprietors and a large number of low-wage workers, resulting in a "Brave New Capitalists Paradise" that is an atrocious prospect.
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Workers must requalify and collaborate with AI to remain competitive in the labor market, while state intervention could include resisting automation and a tax on robots to address wealth distribution.
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Capitalism has not significantly reduced working time, but reducing working hours through technological advancements can protect employment and combat global warming.
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A basic income for all could soften the impact of automation on income distribution and provide unconditional support for workers affected by technological unemployment and other crises.
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Basic income offers the opportunity for individuals to reinvent other ways of living and give other meanings to existence than work, while politicians should ensure productivity gains benefit everyone and rethink our relationship to work in a world where machines are taking over.

This article is a summary of a YouTube video "IA : Après la "fin du travail"" by Philoxime

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