On the subject of the burgeoning field of Artificial Intelligence and the way it seemed to explode on the world stage in 2023, author and transhumanist Zoltan Istvan has an article at Newsweek this week that offers a lot of food for thought. Rather than focusing on the potential for a robot revolution that overthrows mankind, he delves more into the societal impacts of AI as it rapidly replaces humans in the workforce. (He does touch on the robot revolution later in the article, though.) He points to recent debates suggesting that the federal government should “nationalize” AI as a way to protect both workers’ rights and capitalism itself. While I agree that both are laudable goals, Istvan and I come down on very different sides when it comes to possible solutions. But we both manage to agree that nationalizing AI would be “a bad idea.”
It’s a bad idea. For starters, I…
