Many people are uniting behind the idea of universal basic income with the assumption that it will give them greater freedom and more free time. But they are completely wrong about universal basic income. UBI is only designed to elevate people out of poverty, but with the current political and economic system, and artificial intelligence on the rise, we can only expect a dystopian future.
This isn’t a case against universal basic income per se. The problem is that universal basic income is can going be used by economic and political elites as a distraction from a much more sever social restructuring. With the power of the artificial intelligence within the hands of the few biggest corporations they will control and manipulate everything. It’s not a conspiracy theory. They are doing it right now.
This video builds on the arguments and premises laid out by AI developers and researches like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Ray Kurzweil, and Sam Harris. While Elon Musk thinks universal basic income is inevitable, we still share the stance on the dangers of artificial intelligence, because we can’t rely on the system when we can no longer earn our own income, but have to rely on corporations and governments to sustain our lives.
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Google Abusing Its Monopoly
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The European Commission’s Google Search Case: A Timeline of Significant Events (Biased Perspective)
Facebook Tracking Browsing History
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Twitter Censorship
Android Apps Secretly Tracking Users By Listening To Inaudible Sound Hidden In Adverts
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Advertising Surveillance
Your Online Attention, Bought in an Instant
Secret E-Scores Chart Consumers’ Buying Power
Tracking The Trackers: Where Everybody Knows Your Username
Mapping, and Sharing, the Consumer Genome
Government Surveillance
House Fails to Protect Americans from Unconstitutional NSA Surveillance
The Same Democrats Who Denounce Donald Trump as a Lawless, Treasonous Authoritarian Just Voted to Give Him Vast Warrantless Spying Powers
NSA Surveillance Bill Would Legalize Loophole That Lets FBI Spy On Americans Without A Warrant
Rand Paul Is Right: NSA Routinely Monitors Americans’ Communications Without Warrants
From NSA Leaks by Edward Snowden
NSA’s Verizon Spying Order Specifically Targeted Americans, Not Foreigners
Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages
NSA Can Spy on Smart Phone Data
No Morsel Too Minuscule for All-Consuming N.S.A.
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Videos
Sam Harris on AI power at 19:20
Ray Kurzweil on AI power at 8:30
Elon Musk on AI power at 36:00
Julian Assange on Propaganda Functions at 11:15
Bret Weinstein on AI censorship at 27:40
We’re building a dystopia just to make people click on ads | Zeynep Tufekci
Credits
‘Controlled Chaos’ by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
