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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/Lucky_Strike-85 on 2024-01-14 20:32:07+00:00.
I'm not worried about access to wants, desires, newer/better video games/toys/hobbies etc.
I am interested in AI's potential to offer de-commodified needs or nearly zero-marginal-cost: housing, healthcare, access to clean water/food.
For example... I need healthcare. It's a need, not a desire. I live in the U.S. and am uninsured and living in desperate precarity. If I access healthcare, dental care etc. the bills will cause me to lose everything and I will become homeless. This is because healthcare is not treated in the same way roads are, libraries etc.
Will I be able to access healthcare in the next 5 years without incurring extreme financial loss?
Further, what happens to a society where EVEYRTHING except the air we breathe is highly highly commodified, and for many basic human needs are becoming unaffordable?
Do those invested in such a stratified and commodified world allow us to live in a fairer, more equitable world?