A combination of AI and robotics will cost millions of jobs in the US, and 10's of millions of jobs world wide within the next 10-20 years. What will be left will be those jobs that need a human to perform them. And as time continues forward, those jobs will slowly dwindle.
Here's the problem. Anyone who think government or industry will pay millions of people who can't find work the money it takes to survive is seriously deluded. Yang wanted to give out $1,000 per month. That won't even buy food for a family of 4, let alone put a roof over their heads and clothes on their backs.
Also, who's going to buy the goods produced in an AI society? Consumers need money to do their consuming.
The only way this can work is in a world where the population is only a very small fraction of what it is now, and a new generation of people has been weaned away from a consumer based society.
To parody the words of Jesus, "The rich you will always have with you" in that kind of society.
Everyone else will be poor, and barely have enough to survive.
Lets face it, the rich ain't gonna care if we live or die as long as they've got theirs. AI plus robotics will insure they do.
George Carlin said it best:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oLI0RuDAqjI
And when Carlin said that, he wasn't factoring in the impact of AI. It's gonna be worse than he said.
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