In “Trucks,” one of Stephen King’s short stories in “Night Shift,” large motor vehicles suddenly become sentient beings aimed at destroying human life. The story follows the plight of a small group of survivors who hide out at a truck stop trying to avoid being exterminated in the parking lot. Eventually, the few remaining humans are forced to refuel their truck overlords and manufacture them indefinitely.
Last week, a senior Anthropic official wrote in a lengthy resignation thread posted to X that “the people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.” Since then, the pro-tech and anti-tech gurus have been fighting it out on the national stage. Is ChatGPT going to kill us all, or is it a nice companion for nice knitting grandmas?
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We used AI to run scenarios on combining self pay and insurance clients for my wife’s practice. She hates to drop her insurance clients but for some insurers the reimbursement is just too low. It was useful to model different scenarios.
I’m afraid I’m not optimistic about universal basic income IF AI actually eliminates a lot of jobs We can’t even get universal health insurance. I think there will be an underground economy and a lot of poverty.
Marianne
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If unemployments rates hit 20 percent, won’t they have to address a universal basic income?
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Sorry been offline and missed this. I’m looking at the cuts to Medicaid and SNAP and I’m not as optimistic as you, at least not if much of this administration remains in charge.
Marianne.
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