The Intelligence Curse
Original post by: @AISafetyMemes
This may go down as post that coined "intelligence curse"
It's memetically fit and you'll start hearing the Very Serious People saying it soon
When states discover oil, they’re hit with the resource curse — incentivizing them to stop investing in people. When we achieve AGI, we’ll face the intelligence curse:
Powerful actors that adopt labor force-replacing AI systems will face rentier state-like incentives with far higher stakes. Because their revenues will come from intelligence on tap instead of people, they won’t receive returns on the investments we consider prerequisites to sustenance like education to prepare people for employment, employment and salaries, or a welfare state for the unemployed. As a result, they won’t invest – and their people will be unable to sustain themselves as a result. Humans need not apply, and so humans will not get paid.
This is the intelligence curse – when powerful actors create and implement general intelligence, they will lose their incentives to invest in people.
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