The unlikely presidential run of Andrew Yang, who is proposing a $1,000-a-month “freedom dividend” to every adult in America, rolled Friday into San Francisco, where some 3,000 supporters listened to the New York tech entrepreneur warn about how artificial intelligence and robotics are taking jobs.
While prisoners have the only confirmed American right to healthcare, the quality of services are at times lacking and unreliable. The dire need for mental health services especially for our prison population poses a grave challenge to finite resources.
With the impending decline of private prisons combined with the little known world of prison healthcare administration, the future health of our most indigent is at stake. We’ve never had a greater need for innovation in the provision of large scale healthcare and mental health.
Calls for the replacement of human labor continue but jobs really just change form. The flexible and creative continue to thrive and survive.
How can you know if you’re about to get replaced by an invading algorithm or an augmented immigrant? “If your job can be easily explained, it can be automated,” Anders Sandberg, of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute, tells Oppenheimer. “If it can’t, it won’t.” (Rotten luck for people whose job description is “Predict the future.”) Baldwin offers three-part advice: (1) avoid competing with A.I. and R.I.; (2) build skills in things that only humans can do, in person; and (3) “realize that humanity is an edge not a handicap.” What all this means is hard to say, especially if you’ve never before considered being human to be a handicap.
