Beyond Singularity

TL;DR: Most debates about AI and automation focus on income: how to protect people if labor income falls, and how to distribute the gains from AI more fairly. That is why proposals like UBI and broad-based ownership of AI capital matter. But there is a major blind spot here. Even...

Abstract: Accelerating AI development presents existential risks and necessitates examining future human societal structures in the context of mass automation. Current socio-economic systems, particularly capitalism, generate incentives that arguably exacerbate these risks (e.g., development races, coordination failures). This paper proposes a conceptual model, the "Game Culture Civilization" (GCC), as an...