{"id":123756,"date":"2021-06-12T19:22:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T02:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/sam-altman-on-the-a-i-revolution-trillionaires-and-the-future-of-political-power"},"modified":"2021-06-12T19:22:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T02:22:58","slug":"sam-altman-on-the-a-i-revolution-trillionaires-and-the-future-of-political-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/sam-altman-on-the-a-i-revolution-trillionaires-and-the-future-of-political-power","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman on the A.I. Revolution, Trillionaires and the Future of Political Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sam-altman-on-the-a-i-revolution-trillionaires-and-the-future-of-political-power2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But what struck me about his essay is that last clause: \u201cif we as a society manage it responsibly.\u201d Because, as Altman also admits, if he is right then A.I. will generate phenomenal wealth largely by destroying countless jobs \u2014 that\u2019s a big part of how everything gets cheaper \u2014 and shifting huge amounts of wealth from labor to capital. And whether that world becomes a post-scarcity utopia or a feudal dystopia hinges on how wealth, power and dignity are then distributed \u2014 it hinges, in other words, on politics.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Will A.I. give us the lives of leisure we long for \u2014 or usher in a feudal dystopia? It depends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But what struck me about his essay is that last clause: \u201cif we as a society manage it responsibly.\u201d Because, as Altman also admits, if he is right then A.I. will generate phenomenal wealth largely by destroying countless jobs \u2014 that\u2019s a big part of how everything gets cheaper \u2014 and shifting huge amounts of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}