"Joe Biden’s former commerce secretary Gina Raimondo has decided that UBI in response to AI is the thing to fear most. At the Reagan National Economic Forum, she said: “I personally think it’s like the end of America.”
She is now heading up a newly-launched, extremely well-funded organization to make sure the country reaches for anything but a basic income in response to AI.
On the one hand, while selling themselves to investors, Big Tech says it can eventually automate almost any job a human can do. What they don’t want is any responsibility for their actions. I’d expect conservatives to be against UBI, but Gina Raimondo, the person heading this up, is a Democrat.
The upside? This conversation is getting harder to ignore, and Gina Raimondo is bringing more attention to it, even if it’s with dud ideas. In years of paying attention to this topic (AI/robots capable of most work), I’ve yet to come across a solution that isn’t some form of Socialism or UBI.
So give it all you’ve got, Conservatives & Centrists; I doubt you’ll come up with any workable alternatives, despite your $500 million funding.
Conservatives feel so strongly that socialism will be unsuccessful that they’re willing to spend billions to stop it.
She was a Biden employee, for the record.
End their version of America, yes.
Would the end of America as it is now really be all that bad though?
unadulterated capitalism has to go, too.
Capitalism has to go.
Amazon, Anthropic, Microsoft, and the OpenAI Foundation are anchor partners. Behind them sits a wall of corporate and philanthropic money: Blackstone, General Motors, IBM, Eli Lilly, Mastercard, Deloitte, UPS, Cisco, Workday, Arnold Ventures, and a dozen more.
No need to read the article to know who this Centrist Democrat is funded by, or who thinks her ideas are “good”
End the gluttony of billionaires perhaps. So yes it would be the end of something but the beginning of something better.
Looks like the party system in the US is a coin toss between heads they win and tails you lose. The US needs a NDP new democratic party since only the right wing is represented there.
We need actual socialists.
i have some bad news about democrats for whoever wrote that
Remember, she got those billion dollars from you and your friends.
She actually raised that money from
Amazon, Anthropic, Microsoft, and the OpenAI Foundation are anchor partners. Behind them sits a wall of corporate and philanthropic money: Blackstone, General Motors, IBM, Eli Lilly, Mastercard, Deloitte, UPS, Cisco, Workday, Arnold Ventures, and a dozen more.
Who got their money from exploiting you and your friends.
Whose bread I eat: his song I sing.
It means the wealthy won’t help. The current system and its governing bodies don’t help. And they’ll be shocked when the population is willing to jump to a completely different system.
The wealthy never help. That’s how they got wealthy. By hurting people.
Kind of begs the question “should America be ended?” And also, would it end all of America? Like the entire half of the world called America? Or just one specific part of America?
