Artificial Intelligence: ZWT Perspective

People looking into the future world developments today deeply  concerned about the rapid progress in the Artificial Intelligent (AI) technology resulting in massive job loss, apart from its ethical and other problems. The AI and other experts enthusiastically provide hundreds of solution specially to mitigate the “technological unemployment”. They show the promise of new technologies creating new jobs as it happened in the history before. However, what they very much lack indeed is, a clear historical perspective, scientific vision and an open minded futuristic approach understand this issue. THE EXPONENTIAL GROWTH IN THE A.I. TECHNOLOGY WILL RENDER THE HUMAN LABOR OBSOLETE, SOONER THAN LATER.

In my opinion, the rapid progress in the AI ROBOT automation provides the great historical opportunity that the humankind has been waiting since the beginning.  To liberate themselves from the  drudgery of human labor. The SERVITUDE, enslavement, humiliation that the  majority of the population compelled to undergo by the minority in order to earn their living i.e. wages, salaries or income. Now, with the progress in the AI technology  we can  gradually get rid and finally  abolish the human labor for wage system and replace it with an equitable income sharing system. It can begin with the  “unconditional” guaranteed income system one may call it the Universal Basic Income or the UBI.

My book titled “An Alternative to Marxian Scientific Socialism: The Theory Reduction in Working Hours (RWH); ….” Published in the year 1981. More of its details in the  links bit.ly/2mGAUWg  , http://bit.ly/2eARyEx http://bit.ly/2nR4MAP

The gist of the theory is; “Labor” or work is the compulsion on humans (originally imposed by nature) to obtain their means of subsistence. The "human labor relation" is the ROOT-CAUSE OF EXPLOITATION on man by man. It results it all kinds of subjugation, injustice, inequality and corruption in the hitherto human society.

According to the RWH Theory, the AI ROBOTS are the embodiment of the mankind’s million years of historical struggle, technological endeavor, and dream to overcome their labor/work for SURVIVAL. Now it had culminated into complete replacement of the human labor, jobs or employment.

Its first stage began with the early humans primitive tools used as the replacement of their body, limbs in their day to day work for survival. It reached  many levels of mechanical development and sophistication  continued for hundreds and thousands years of ancient to medieval history. The second stage began at around 18th century with the advent of steam engines electrical motors merging with the machine tools popularly known as the Industrial Revolution . It most importantly replaced the human muscle power in the human labor equation with the unimaginable inanimate energy force unparalleled in the history. These machine tool although  able to do the hard labor of hundreds of thousands of workers  nevertheless always needed the humans intelligent brain cognitive power to perform, conduct the given work or duty.

The third and final stage began with the advent of Semiconductors or the microchip revolution. The Exponential growth of the microprocessors started the era known as the Artificial Intelligence. The 21st century AI robots automation started rapidly replacing humans (biological) intelligence with its human brain like neurological machine deep learning algorithms. AI today is getting far more superior to the humans biological brain in the performance of all human work. Its cognitive learning ability can supersede any intelligent human brain enabling the robots to render every “paid” human labor completely redundant or obsolete.

Now, the only way to progress towards the mankind’s destiny is; A Gradual Reduction in Working Hours aiming towards the complete abolition of the Wage labor i.e. jobs. However, considering the failure or stagnation of the reduction of working hour movement in the last decades and the present worlds rapid AI exponential technological progress and disruption, I realize that a guaranteed Basic Income or the Equitable Universal Basic Income fulfills the final objectives of the  RWHT.  

Nevertheless, my views on the UBI not the same  as many of the UBI proponent, who see it  as  mainly as an incentive to the poor workers to work more productively with the additional income and to supplement to their wages. I argue UBI needs to act as a complete replacement  to the wage-labor.  “UBI  SHOULD ALLOW THE PEOPLE TO BECOME ECONOMICALLY INDEPENDENT,  TOTALLY FREE FROM THE DRUDGERY OF WORK, OUT OF THE SERVITUDE,HUMILIATION

OF WAGE-LABOR IF THEY WANT. This will also encourage a substantial portion of the laboring population to quit their jobs, which will positively result in the increase in the employment, wages thereby further rapid AI automation in the entire industry.  The recommendation of an adequate amount of UBI  without having the compulsion of wage-labor, mean ZERO WORK  for those who would opt for it, which is final GOAL of the RWH Theory. So now I prefer the name it “Zero Work Theory” (ZWT). I have explained more about this theory in my blog.

The principle behind the ZWT is that the fruits of the progress in the  science and technological in the human society  should not be appropriated or accumulated by only  a few  but it is their historical responsibility and every people concerned, to see to it that the benefit should be equally shared among all members of the society. This is the inevitable future that the elite class should understand whether they like it or not.