Und apropos AI- und Roboterrevolution: Beeindruckt hat mich vor einigen Wochen dies

https://medium.com/basic-income/deep-learning-is-going-to-teach-us-all-the-lesson-of-our-lives-jobs-are-for-machines-7c6442e37a49#.bkwitr1rl

Und hier einige der Stellen, die ich in dem Essay markiert habe:

"Distressingly, it’s exactly routine work that once formed the basis of the American middle class. It’s routine manual work that Henry Ford transformed by paying people middle class wages to perform, and it’s routine cognitive work that once filled US office spaces. Such jobs are now increasingly unavailable, leaving only two kinds of jobs with rosy outlooks: jobs that require so little thought, we pay people little to do them, and jobs that require so much thought, we pay people well to do them."

"Should income itself remain coupled to employment, such that having a job is the only way to obtain income, when jobs for many are entirely unobtainable?"

"Is it even possible that many of the jobs we’re creating don’t need to exist at all, and only do because of the incomes they provide?"

"The idea is to put machines to work for us, but empower ourselves to seek out the forms of remaining work we as humans find most valuable, by simply providing everyone a monthly paycheck independent of work."

"In a frequently cited paper, an Oxford study estimated the automation of about half of all existing jobs by 2033."

"...prominent data scientist Jeremy Howard asked “Do you want half of people to starve because they literally can’t add economic value, or not?” before going on to suggest, ”If the answer is not, then the smartest way to distribute the wealth is by implementing a universal basic income.”"

Und die dramatische Pointe :-)

"What’s the big lesson to learn, in a century when machines can learn?

I offer it’s that jobs are for machines, and life is for people."