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@mcuban have you seen
@ericschmidt booed by young graduates preaching how AI will solve all? I am not an AI doomer or accelerationist. I am an AI democratist. But AI is not a panacea for our economic divides.
Our elite class is totally out of touch.
Young folks see an unfair and lopsided economy where money lenders & speculators are obscenely wealthy while they can't afford a house or education.
We are in a new Gilded Age.
We need a home guarantee for young Americans by 35 if they work for 7 years.
A jobs program for them after school.
Childcare at $10 day.
Medicare for All so healthcare isn't tied to your work.
Free trade schools and public college.
An industrial investment bank financing small and medium size manufacturers that make things we currently import.
Tech institutes that prepare Americans to use AI in a small business, government agency, or factory floor.
An end to data center extraction taking a community's water and jacking up their bills, sucking all the money in the hands of a few tech billionaires.
A tax on agentic AI more than human workers.
A tax on billionaires and, yes, trillionaires.
An end to foreign wars.
An end to aid to nations that commit genocide.
I call it a Team America agenda.
So 2024.
What both parties miss is that AI can be a great government vs business equalizer.
If government hires people willing and able to learn how to use the same AI available to everyone, from any number of domestic model makers, it has the opportunity to serve Americans, adequately at worst, more productively and effectively , if done well and transparently
The more efficient government is, the harder companies have to work to outperform it.
That makes for more opportunity.
What both parties have to realize is that the problem that will accelerate in this new world is crony capitalism. Both parties excel at giving our taxpayer money to their friends. Like all new technologies, AI will create new pockets of wealth that will try to buy our politicians. From both parties.
The more transparency we require in government, the more we respect the right of the people to challenge that largesse, the more we restrict the ability of politicians to receive dark money , and reward their friends, the better the quality of life will be across the country.
Whether you like it or not, AI has changed everything, except , our government , our politics and our politicians. Which have not changed at all.
So here we are. Talking about parties and politicians that are thinking in the past. Like it’s still 2024.
That’s a problem for all of us.