AI2 CEO Oren Etzioni envisions an artificial intelligence ‘utopia’ – GeekWire – Technology vs Humanity: the coming clash of man and machine

“There will be very real disruption,” he says. “Jobs will be taken away and those people need to be taken care of. People have floated the idea of universal basic income, of negative income tax, of training programs. We have an obligation to figure out how to help people cope with the rapidly changing nature of technology.””

AI2 CEO Oren Etzioni envisions an artificial intelligence ‘utopia’ – GeekWire
https://www.geekwire.com/2016/ai2-ceo-oren-etzioni-envisions-artificial-intelligence-utopia/
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