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If computers do progress to the point they can make their own decisions, your essentially talking about self-awareness. In which case, we should focus our efforts on genetically engineering our own John Connor..
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This is a misapprehension about AI. It's entirely possible, theoretically, to have superhuman AGI that can do everything a person can do without consciousness. So no, awareness is a totally separate topic.
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Unfortunately, I just doing see a UBI fulfilling its goals. The implementation of a UBI is also likely only to further take our economy down the wrong path. The government needs to focus on making entrepreneurship more accessible. This means lower taxes for the middle class, more access to capital and labour, and correction of the wealth imbalance between the baby boomers and everyone else. Canada needs a dynamic economy that focuses on building service and technology sectors. Anything that further hampers the innovative and/or entrepreneurial spirit is counterproductive.
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Who will constitute the middle class when 98% of transportation, manufacturing, retail, front-line (e.g. grocery store stockists), telephone operators, and myriad other things are automated? Why do you think there will
be a middle class? What does "more access to capital and labour" mean in that context?
This is a really myopic perspective, in my view - you seem to think that throughout our lifetimes societal norms and structures will continue much as they have been for the past 70-odd years, but there's every reason to think the opposite.