That's a perspective I have never considered, I always thought technology was supposed to make life easier... hmmm... but you are right to consider that without something to occupy humans, engage them and allowing them to make a living, there's a high likelihood that violence and crime will increase.

I agree with you, people will lose a lot of jobs, but there are also jobs that can't be replaced by robots ...
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3 words. Resource Based Economy.

Tens of millions of jobs will be replaced in the next 50 years, with absolutely no garantee that new jobs would somewhat emerge out of nowhere, especially jobs where humans are better than AI, which will keep improving over time. How to address this issue? Well the obvious answer is the need for a Universal Basic Income in the future... How do we finance that? By heavily taxing goods/services produced/provided by robots and machines. Eeh I can already feel the crypto-anarchists cringing at the idea of governments having such an important role in our lives.
But honestly if anyone has a better idea, please share, cause no-one has found it yet.

One way to reduce government impact would be to keep the idea of a UBI based on taxation, but to use blockchain technology to implement it. I'm not a programmer nor a blockchain technology expert by any means. But if we take your example of the machine producing 50,000 phones, basically in order to be legally allowed to be sold, the machine would be forced to document the creation of each phone to the network; Once the item is sold- an action that should also be documented-, the selling company is automatically taxed and the money is directly and equally distributed to the wallets of every citizen aged over 18. The security and reliability of the network could be garanteed either by the government, or better, by elected citizens of the country (kind of like steemit witnesses), even though they would still probably need government support given how important their job would be. This would lead to the creation of national crypto-currencies, since laws don't extend over borders. Imported goods would have to provide proof that they were produced by humans, and would be taxed if they weren't. As I said I don't know anything about blockchain technology and I have no clue of what I'm talking about. This is a extremely simplified idea of how it could be done, it surely has many flaws and may not be even implementable.

With the advancement of AI , we will definitely see massive changes in the economy .  There will be pros and cons , but imo , The pros will outweigh the cons. One of the cons which i m mostly concern about is the unemployment rate. AI's will eventually take over blue-collar labor jobs and some of the white collar jobs . Such as accountancy , teachers and many more . The future is unpredictable , i guess we would just have to wait and see ! Great post btw my friend .

Oh yes they will learn more as us, but with worse instinct and worse feeling in his decide

As an economist, I think that we **may be overreacting**. This ideas are not new and the same arguments were used from the 18th century to now in times of tecnological revolutions. 

Economic history teaches us that innovations, in short run, inevitably displace some segment of workforce. But, on the other side, more than 40 percent of jobs in leading economis were replaced by other jobs in less than a 80 years. There is no reason to believe that this won't happen again!

Definitely food for thought how AI will shape our future. Thanks!

I definitely agree with your article @calaber24p. AI already replace tons of jobs and it will continue to replace them faster than the past. For this reason in real life I teach people programming. Also in one of my articles I had write about reasons to learn programming. And this was the most important one: https://steemit.com/programming/@djvidov/programming-why-should-i-learn-it

That robot is the coolest.. I am getting this strange feeling that sometime soon there is going to be a huge spike in the market for robotics..

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Reading this excellent article, I can't help but think about what will humans do to reinvent the way we are interacting together because, as time goes by, we tend to spend less and less time among each other in direct contact. 

With the rise of internet, we had one huge wave but this one would transform our #1 place where we interact eye to eye with each other, decreasing the amount of physical presence with one another.

Are we going to invest time into playing more sports together, more group meditation or, maybe, something in between like group yoga and contact dancing? I really look forward to see where things are going to go.

Thanks a lot for the quality and the opportunity to think about this matter some more.

Namaste   :)

I think that the human species won't be able to create a REAL AI during the next 20-30 years...In my opinion it's too hard to programm that...you'd need to make a remake of the human brain...

I have thought about this too.  What do we do when the unemployment rate hits 90%?  It is wise to consider alternatives before we hit that point.  I think the idea of a Guarenteed Basic Income makes sense.  We pay people a basic living allowance and then they are free to become entrepreneurs or just go shopping and fuel the robo economy.  It's easy today to just shout at poor people **Get A JOB!!!**  But the days are coming when machines will have all the jobs.  What do we do then???

The problem that you are talking about in this article is very real, and more than a little scary. Unfortunately, the solution doesn't seem to be anything as simple as taxing the hell out of robots and the companies that use them and give everyone a Universal Basic Income. 

People much better educated in economics than I am have debunked this idea. Here's one article from a couple of years ago showing that the math simply cannot work: http://www.oftwominds.com/blogdec15/basic-income12-15.html

The author (Charles Hugh Smith) also points out major psychological problems that could come from people living on UBI instead of earning their living. 

I don't know what the answer is but it seems pretty clear that Universal Basic Income is not it. As for me, I'm living in South America and looking to buy some farmable land as a place to ride out the storm. God help us all!

I think it's a little bit too optimistic to assume we'll just automate away all of the jobs. I don't think robots will be cheap enough to replace manual labor for gas stations, dollar stores, walmarts and the like for a long time. 

If anything robots are mostly improving the quality work at places like, for example, Amazon warehouses - or replacing work that nobody wants to do, that often ends up as sweatshop labor otherwise

Humans are most intelligent species on earth, however vast amount of people from countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, South Africa, Iran do their livings by working as labor class because most of them are uneducated. We may be living in future but if the education is not equal to all countries  people will suffer from poverty.

Exactly!  When the value of human labor goes to zero because of automation and AI, the only possible value humans can have to each other is sentimental or the ownership of other AI/robots.  (Capitalism becomes less and less practical as we approach a society where our labor has no inherent value)

Yes. Huge changes to come!

The last enormous shift in the workplace - the Industrial Revolution, brought about many societal shifts and took over 100 years to be fully assimilated (for lack of a better word). Shifting from an agarian society to an industrialized society showed us the absolute need for a safety net for those displaced workers. Now we are faced with the Computer Revolution which has already created enormous societal changes. 

We have a world of haves and have nots - predicated on the accessibility of an internet connection. I think much of the anger and fear we are seeing in the political arena has been brought about by the changes in technology we have already witnessed. Many industries have been "computerized" with subsequent human job loss. Bank tellers, auto workers, grocery clerks and many others are a dying breed as ATM's, robots, and self checkout or Amazon Pantry have come into wide spread use.

"Tomorrow" is already here and growing. The genie can't and won't be put back into the bottle. I think figuring out how to take care of the displaced workers will be one of the top three issues the world will have to resolve in the next few decades. In the past we have used wars and land/resource grabs as an economic tool. I am hopeful we have learned enough to look to other methods of resolving the issues that surround this cultural and economic shift.

Insightful article! Thank you.

Definitely agree! What do you think of UBI, by the way? I was at a night of discussions about universal basic income and someone did an amazing talk about the coming robotic revolution. He made the case that most politicians aren't aware about this, or simply don't have solutions - but over a third of the British workforce are going to soon be out a job (in the coming decades). There's also the issue you touched upon of having systems without any real oversight. Machines learning and fixing machines and the amount of code, etc., and complications arising will be too much for anyone to understand. Computer says yes computer says no, etc. Oh, brave new world!

Hello, can you define Machine learning and AI as well?
Can their be machine learning without the involvement
of AI?

We will be allowed to spend our time differently, focusing on the most important things. For this reason, I think this evolution is good, as long as the rewards are shared with the society in an equal manner so that everybody can get his/her part of the cake. Will this be the case, I am afraid that I am here more pessimistic... Only the future will tell!

Resteemed.  You would also be interested in https://steemit.com/technology/@ethical-ai/the-real-threat-of-artificial-intelligence-clear-and-present-dangers-i which references a really good recent New York Times opinion piece https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/24/opinion/sunday/artificial-intelligence-economic-inequality.html

It is startling to see how fast the world and technology moves. I think there is more then enough evidence to cite that we as humans are not adapting as quickly as technology, automation and AI is in fact doing so. I appreciate a good article promoting the awareness of it. You have made an excellent observation here. I can relate much of this to experience in my own life as someone involved in the tech industry. Keep up the good work, and I will follow. Cheers!

This is true. We have to think outside the box!!!!!

I agree and disagree with this article. I agree that machines will make jobs that once needed human operators obsolete. However,  i think human beings will evolve with that and simply move to the area of jobs where they are needed. LIke the shoemaker.  No one makes shoes by hand like that anymore. However, they now move their skills to where demand is needed and focus there. 

Also, machine technology will be integrated with human biology. So it's not so much we'll be replaced by machines. We'll be the machines at some point.  As this integration will become cheaper and able to be used by everybody.  If we think of it like a comic book story like iron man.  We may be some merge of the machine with the ai applying it and being part of the task.

Exoskeletons now use a combination of the machine processor and human mind together. So a type of merger of two minds if you will. So i dont think it will lead to destruction of the ability of man to make a living or the breakdown of modern society. I believe we'll have a symbiotic relationship with machines both literal and not.

I agree, it's great what these robots are doing for us, they can achieve accuracy and consistency much higher than any humans can which unfortunately as a result, puts humans out of work. Great article :)

Moving forward yes, innovate and make changes yes, but the trick is: don't do it for maximizing profit. In the race for profit we will lose the chance to really change something. If we all are going to maximizing profit by any means possible then nature won't stand a chance. Nature dosen't make profit yet is here and allows us to Steem.
In the race for profit we are blinded. And blind man can see others pain and needs.