[dmitshur]

> Now consider humanity after full automation. Instead of millions of migrant workers, humanity will have trillions of digital laborers at its disposal.

One piece in the logic I don't get is this: why would (or should) the earnings done by those workers go into the pockets of humanity, who isn't doing the work, rather than into the pockets of the laborers, whether digital or not?

[jimbokun]

This is like asking why the profits of corporations aren't given to the machines in the factories.

[dmitshur]

A difference there is no one's claiming the machines in the factories are going to reach AGI levels of intelligence within some years.

[jimbokun]

Wanting to give full human rights to any piece of software appearing to pass the Turing test is also a big leap.

[indigodaddy]

Or more likely just the companies themselves if all the labor is AI no? Seems like the society/economy will need stringently enforced policies to even begin to think about making this happen