Don't believe ScoMo: What AI means for us in 2020

The history of the government of people is superficially a history of the tensions between personal liberty and social responsibility for the greater good. This is what we're taught about as children and yet I personally believe the major purpose of education is not literacy or numeracy but social conditioning to this mythical golden thread that runs through the polite fabric of societies. At a deeper level, this tension between liberty and responsibility realizes itself in the western economic model as a race for acquiring capital. If we have a lot of money we will be free to do what we want. Similarly to Turing who thought in 1950 that the Turing Test would already be passed, Keynes's view in the 1930s that automation would liberate us from work in 2030 has not come to pass.