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April 21, 2018 02:34 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/99LVuSE0IMs/kurzweil-predicts-universal-basic-incomes-worldwide-within-20-years
Kurzweil Predicts Universal Basic Incomes Worldwide Within 20 Years
Google's director of engineering Ray Kurzweil made a startling prediction at the 2018 TED conference. Hacker Noon reports:"In the early 2030s, we'll have universal basic income in the developed world, and worldwide by the end of the 2030s. You'll be able to live very well on that. The primary concern will be meaning and purpose," he said onstage at the annual event... Kurzweil believes that by 2029, computers will have human-level intelligence. It's not inconceivable then that AI will be distributing UBI to humans based on algorithms that are capable of crunching numbers in ways we cannot follow. Indeed, what we call the "State" in even just 10 years time may have been transformed by AI and blockchain tech in a way whereby even our experience of consensus decision making and democracy itself may have evolved.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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