Hey @keving34
Thanks for the mention and featuring my article or I would have never found this thought-provoking piece. I'm in the tech field and I've been watching the growth of IOT, AI and Machine learning for some time now and It is by no means a doomsday sentence just yet but a natural progression of technology.
To me it will be a slow arduous process of incremental improvements over time that it won't feel like this big jump, in 20 years we will look back on how we did things before and laugh.
The thing with the current AI for lack of a better term is they are based on rules and can perform these rule-based jobs faster and with more accuracy than a human saving us time and money. Let's face it there are plenty of modern office jobs that are not value generators especially within government, its all about keeping people busy, go out and dig a hole and fill it again.
As I live in a socialist country (South Africa) I'm not really a fan of something like a Universal Basic Income without proof of work. A person needs to prove that they are an active contributing member of society before they are allowed access to a UBI and not just be parasites of the system.
We need to look at putting people to work in ways that may not have been well rewarded before say social upliftment, sport, private farming and more projects that allow people to generate value and be more self-sustaining with the UBI just being an added support structure.
My real fear is giving over too much of our proof of brain to computers may start to see us become dumber as we're not problem-solving as much as we should and we need to look at how ways to keep improving ourselves and that's how you improve your quality fo life since life is but perception and interpretation.
Thanks for the upvote and resteem!
I personally think that if AI is done ethically and conscientiously, there will be plenty of jobs (ultimately) for human workers as AI trainers/explainers/sustainers. People get paid 0.0000001 BTC to watch a video on an offer wall now, let's put them to work watching YouTube to spot anomalies in their algorithms, debunking fake news, etc. On the other hand if AI is done cheaply, we're all in for a world of hurt.
Maybe then we'll travel back in time to take jobs from early 21st century Southpark, provided that "the pile" didn't work 😁