Robots TAKING OVER: AI to 'sink world into unemployed despair in hellish dystopia'

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 Robots TAKING OVER: AI to 'sink world into unemployed despair in hellish dystopia'

HUMAN beings are already on course for a hellish dystopia where robots have replaced all jobs and the world sinks into global depression, an expert has warned.
 
   
By David Rivers / Published 13th January 2018
Expert warns of 'EVIL THINGS' to come from AI
 

Technology has rapidly thrust robots into the human economy but fears are spiralling that artificial intelligence will spark mass unemployment.

Dr Subhash Kak – a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Oklahoma University – previously said robots could replace humans at "literally all jobs".

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/671978/artificial-intelligence-robots-jobs-takeover-unemployment-depression-subhash-kak

[DCPatriot]

Google is Genisys    ^-^

[Oceander]

This is such a ridiculous concept: that robots will render everyone unemployed. 

Assume arguendo that robots take over every job; who is going to buy the goods and services these robots provide?  The very small class of people who own all those robots and the businesses they work in?  Not nearly enough demand to support more than a small number of robot workers.  Taken to the logical conclusion the author urges, the concept collapses of its own weight.

[Free Vulcan]

In a world of robots, there won't be as much demand for people, especially the useless eaters.

Let that sink in for a minute.

[Oceander]

In a world of robots, there won't be as much demand for people, especially the useless eaters.

Let that sink in for a minute.

If robots put everyone out of work, so that there is nobody to buy the goods or services prepared by these robots, how will the owners of the robots be able to afford those robots, either to acquire or to maintain them?  And if everyone is too poor to afford the goods/services prepared by the robots, won’t they simply turn to their neighbors who have the needed skills and barter for what they need?  So an informal economy of people only springs back up. 

[Suppressed]

If robots put everyone out of work, so that there is nobody to buy the goods or services prepared by these robots, how will the owners of the robots be able to afford those robots, either to acquire or to maintain them?  And if everyone is too poor to afford the goods/services prepared by the robots, won’t they simply turn to their neighbors who have the needed skills and barter for what they need?  So an informal economy of people only springs back up.

Don't think of humans as a single group. Owners will be able to afford; others (those who rely on wages) won't.  There will be a segregation.