Our socioeconomic system is facing an existential threat from AI. In our capitalist society, most people depend on jobs to sustain themselves. The U.S. government, in turn, relies heavily on taxing the income of individual workers for revenue. As artificial intelligence progressively eliminates job opportunities, a growing number of individuals will face severe job insecurity, leading to a corresponding decline in federal revenue. Radical action is needed now to steer away from a dystopian collapse toward better possibilities.

The California congresswoman discussed the Chinese Communist Party's theft of American intellectual property via higher education in an interview with Fox News Digital. President Biden recently rolled out the red carpet for Chairman Xi Jinping, ready to make nice with the regime responsible for reprehensible human rights violations and an ongoing campaign to undermine democracy around the world. Gov. Gavin Newsom cleaned up the streets of San Francisco, admitting publicly that the beautification was purely for the benefit of the visiting leaders. After the high-profile pull asides, Biden and Xi reported that they agreed to reestablish military communications, cooperate on the flow of fentanyl chemicals, and work together on reducing climate change. President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping walk together after a meeting during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation gathering in Woodside, California, on Nov. 15, 2023.

On 22 February1946, George Kennan, an American diplomat stationed in Moscow, dictated a 5,000-word cable to Washington. In this famous telegram, Kennan warned that the Soviet Union's commitment to communism meant that it was inherently expansionist, and urged the US government to resist any attempts by the Soviets to increase their influence. This strategy quickly became known as "containment" – and defined American foreign policy for the next 40 years. The Coming Wave is Suleyman's book-length warning about technological expansionism: in close to 300 pages, he sets out to persuade readers that artificial intelligence (AI) and synthetic biology (SB) threaten our very existence and we only have a narrow window within which to contain them before it's too late. Unlike communism during the cold war, however, AI and SB are not being forced on us.

With the advent of Transformative Artificial Intelligence, it is now more important than ever to be able to both measure and forecast the transformative impact/potential of innovation. However, current methods fall short when faced with this task. This paper introduces the Transform-o-meter; a methodology that can be used to achieve the aforementioned goal, and be applied to any innovation, both material and immaterial. While this method can effectively be used for the mentioned purpose, it should be taken as a first approach; to be iterated, researched, and expanded further upon.

Grimes may be dating the richest man on the planet, but that doesn't stop the musician from thinking about communism. Take this June 2 TikTok, in which Grimes presents a "proposition for the communists." In the humble tradition of previous communist thinkers like Karl Marx, she continues, "If you think about it, AI is actually the fastest path to communism." Let her explain: "If implemented correctly, AI could actually theoretically solve for abundance. Like, we could totally get to a situation where nobody has to work, everybody is provided for with a comfortable state of being, comfortable living.

Grimes' TikTok is a strange and beautiful place -- you truly never know what you're going to get from her. The avant-pop musician has made a name for herself, not only for making some of the most ethereal, groundbreaking contemporary music out there, but also for being a huge advocate for artificial intelligence. In fact, AI is how she and now-boyfriend, tech billionaire Elon Musk, began their romance. The two flirted over the AI thought experiment Roko's basilisk; Musk went to tweet "Rococo's Basilisk" only to see that Grimes had already beat him to it. The rest, famously, is a highly publicized (and scrutinized) relationship, a baby, and history.

On a cold December night in 1950, red-baiting Sen. Joe McCarthy spent a charity dinner at Washington's Sulgrave Club trading insults with liberal journalist Drew Pearson. McCarthy had attacked Pearson on the floor of the Senate, calling for a boycott of his radio show. Pearson had attacked McCarthy on air and in his newspaper column, accusing the senator of lying about communist infiltration of the American government. McCarthy had recklessly accused the State Department of harboring hundreds of communists, sparking a massive investigation and an ongoing purge. After dinner, the two ran into each other in the cloakroom and their conflict turned physical.

Meadows and Dinwiddie: The Venus Project is a non-profit organization that presents a new socio-economic model utilizing science and technology. For the past 40 years, we have maintained a 21-acre research center in Venus, Florida. We propose a new scientific foundation in transcending humanity's current problems by testing a new social design for organizing our society as a global "operating system". Taken as a whole, the Venus Project fills the egregious gap between the sciences and the humanities by combining a social philosophy of the future with technical knowledge applied at a global scale to solve the problems of the human condition. Our methodologies are designed to realize the full potential of science and technology to achieve social betterment for all living systems-- without exception. Our approach to social organization calls for changes in governance, economics, urban planning, education, human relationships, language, and values.

In the future, machines will replace humans in jobs. This is not controversial: it's what machines have done since well before the start of the industrial revolution. Petrol pump attendants were replaced by automated pumps, secretaries were replaced by Microsoft Office. This is what economists call the substitutive effect of automation: humans are substituted in jobs by machines. From time to time, fears have been expressed that humans would run out of jobs entirely. I first wrote about this concern back in 1980, and like many other people at the time, I under-estimated the resilience of what economists call the complementary effect of automation.

Marx argued that under capitalism, everyone must work to live. We have some freedom to chose what type of work we do. But few of us have the choice not to work at all. Most of us need to find some particular task(s) we can do in exchange for a wage. And we cannot just walk away if we do not like it.