{"id":179801,"date":"2024-01-04T12:23:17","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T18:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/why-nationalizing-ai-is-a-bad-idea"},"modified":"2024-01-04T12:23:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T18:23:17","slug":"why-nationalizing-ai-is-a-bad-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/why-nationalizing-ai-is-a-bad-idea","title":{"rendered":"Why Nationalizing AI Is a Bad Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here\u2019s my new Opinion article for Newsweek on AI!<\/p>\n

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Like so many in America, I watch astounded as generative artificial intelligence (AI) evolved at lighting speed in 2023, performing tasks that seemed unimaginable just a few years ago. Just last month, a survey found that nearly 40 percent<\/a> of more than 900 companies were planning to cut jobs in 2024 in part because of AI. If robotics takes a giant leap in the next 12 months, as some suspect<\/a>, then the survey might end up being too conservative. Generative AI combined with humanoids<\/a>, which many companies are racing to turn out, is a game changer. Construction jobs, physician jobs, police jobs, and many more will soon be at stake.<\/p>\n

Clearly, capitalism is facing a crisis. For years, I have advocated for a Universal Basic Income (UBI), as a way to transition society into the AI age. My method was by leasing out<\/a> the trillions of dollars worth of empty U.S. federal land to big business, and using some of the proceeds to pay for a basic income for every American. However, any method of a basic income will now help offset the loss of jobs AI will bring.<\/p>\n

But recently, chatter about something else is being thrown around in internet chat rooms<\/a>, in congressional halls, and in arguments at holiday dinner tables: nationalizing AI.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a bad idea. For starters, I don\u2019t want big government in the innovation business; it already has a hard enough time trying to keep people out of poverty. Right now, 1 in 5<\/a> kids in the U.S. is going to bed hungry or malnourished at night, and America\u2019s homeless problem is the worst<\/a> it\u2019s been in my 50 year lifetime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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