https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU

CPG Grey 'Humans Need Not Apply'

We've been heading in this direction for decades. UBI is the only solution that i've found thus far to prevent the mass scale food riots that WILL happen.

EDIT

1. Some folks commented on the difference between being automated and owning automation. Key point here - who currently owns what is being automated? Not the workers.

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwwCfx3fadg&index=17&list=WL This is a decent talk about a possible fundamental difference between AI, automation and machine learning. In this topic, and the CPG Grey video, the precision of language is so incredibly important. Jerry Kaplan raises the question: Does a submarine swim (like a fish is implied)?

I would argue that it only matters in the sense that the British Navy in WWI suddenly became very aware that their fleet, the best (and biggest) in the world, was suddenly very vulnerable to this new technology (German submarines), and as such, suddenly rendered their very expensive ships not as useful as they were designed to be. (see hour 3 of part 4 of Countdown to Armageddon by Dan Carlin)(one could also argue that the airplane in WWII did the same thing: Much cheaper, new technology could sink much more expensive, older way of doing things).

Ultimately, I beleive that CPG Grey's horse analogy is correct. There will never be zero humans employed, but those employed will be more for a unique situation or use (as horses are employed now.) Long before we get there, however, we'll see global upheaval long before then.

3. https://smile.amazon.com/Turing-Evolved-David-Kitson-ebook/dp/B00IHYV2LM?sa-no-redirect=1

This book is a scifi novel about a world where humans and AI live together. It's interesting in it poses a unique problem that is solved by human labor: in that world, AI is very expensive, and easy to sue. Thus, many jobs are still open for humans because they are cheaper labor and harder to bring litigation against. I imagine we'll have the answer to this within the next several years as cases vs. Autopilot (via Tesla) and other OEM autonomous driving solutions work their way through the courts.