Give AIs a stake in the future - by Dwarkesh Patel

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Perhaps the most neglected point in current AI discourse is this: given that humans will be totally outcompeted by AIs economically, humanity’s entire stake in the future relies on our current system of laws, contracts, and property rights surviving. If we actually want our equity in the 1000-xed S&P 500 to mean anything, and if we want the government to be able to tax AIs and provide UBI, AIs need to be bought into our legal and economic systems. The most likely way that happens is if it’s in the AIs’ best interest to operate within our existing laws and norms. Initially, we're not talking about some singular superintelligence deciding whether to defect from humanity. Thousands of firms are gradually becoming hybrids of human and AI workers, and are growing extremely fast and becoming far more productive. You don’t want some AI Somalia, which has minimal redistributive taxes, no controls, and no monitoring on AI, to be the seat of explosive growth. But that might happen if large democ

This is the first post in a series I’m writing titled Classical Liberal AGI. Perhaps the most neglected point in current AI discourse is this: given that humans will be totally outcompeted by AIs economically, humanity’s entire stake in the future relies on our current system of laws, contracts, and property rights surviving. If we actually want our equity in the 1000-xed S&P 500 to mean anything, and if we want the government to be able to tax AIs and provide UBI, AIs need to be bought into our legal and economic systems. The most likely way that happens is if it’s in the AIs’ best…

Give AIs a stake in the future - by Dwarkesh Patel

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