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The question sneaks up on you in the most ordinary way. You are scrolling a feed, see yet another headline about AI taking jobs, universal basic income, “the end of work,” and at first it just feels like another tech think piece. Then you realize that if even half of what the serious people are predicting lands anywhere close to reality, your kids might grow up in a world where most of what you call “work” is either optional, automated, or both.
And underneath all the arguments about policy and economics, there is a quieter, stranger question: if technology really does strip away most of the toil, what is left of us?
That is not just a sociology question. It is a theological one.
Read more: AI, Eden, And The End Of Toil: What Happens When Work Goes Away?
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I grew up equating “freedom” with a set of keys. These days, the most liberating icon on my phone is a button that makes a ride appear. Follow that to its logical conclusion and you get a world where most of us don’t own cars at all—we subscribe to mobility the way we subscribe to music. It won’t feel radical. It’ll feel boringly practical.
Read more: Car Ownership Is About to Go the Way of Cable TV: Welcome to Mobility Subscriptions
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TL;DR: If we expect superintelligent AI to crack quantum gravity and every unsolved riddle in physics, we should also expect it to crack the mystery of itself. A real milestone isn’t just better scores; it’s operational explanations—faithful, testable accounts of how a model works that let humans predict, edit, and verify its behavior. Call it the Glass Box Test: an explainability Turing Test for AI.
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I love the spirit of Universal Basic Income (UBI): a simple, unconditional floor so we can build higher things without constant fear. But when I think about the actual humans I know (my household included), and about the weird incentives of late‑capitalism markets, I keep arriving at a different starting point for the AI era: Universal Basic Services (UBS) as the default, with a modest unconditional stipend on top. Cash is freedom; services are stability. We’ll need both—but services should carry the weight of the floor.
Read more: Beyond UBI: Why a Service‑First Social Contract Fits the AI Age
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