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Ai Salon: Automation and the Global Underclass [SF]
530 - 6: Filter in and get to know each other
6 - 715: Discussion!
715 - 730: Decompress and chill
730+ we can go to dinner if we want :)
What will happen to the world's poor - defined by the UN standard poverty line - when the advanced economies become self sufficient for industrial output through automation? Will they be able to join the modern, global economy?
Is the ladder breaking? What used to be thought of as the first step in economic progress - t-shirt making - where countries could use the arbitrage in labor costs and local knowledge to sell cheap clothes to the OECD countries could quickly become the domain of a few dark factories. Breaking the ladder of skill that allows countries to advance towards more complex goods and severing any ties between more advanced countries and developing ones.
Come discuss!
The Ai Salon is a global community founded in San Francisco focused on intimate, small-sized group discussions on the sociological, economic, cultural, and philosophical impacts and meaning of AI developments. We host small group discussions, all of which you can find on our calendar. You can find summaries of our previous conversations on our substack.