Communism enabled through Artificial Intelligence

[Prole]

All projections have us creating an artificial intelligence around the mid-point of this century, and articles such as the one linked below should show the validity in these claims. I personally feel that the perfect utopian manifestation of communism is really just determined by the efficiency of our ability to plan. This is why previous man-made attempts to plan for an entire society has failed is because we simply lack the intelligence to do so.

wired[.]com/2014/08/robobrain/?mbid=social_fb

“The purpose,” says Saxena, who dreamed it all up, “is to build a very good knowledge graph—or a knowledge base—for robots to use.”

Having an Artificial Intelligence, linked via internet to all sorts of industries and processes of civilized life would literally allow this intelligence to plan and control everything efficiently.

Yes, this has the potential to go Matrix and Terminator, however I don't feel we are going to be able to stop technological progress, therefore we must attempt to establish it in such a way to mitigate these concerns. This technology will no doubt raise many philosophical questions, however now is the time to discuss them, not when we're about to flip the on-switch.

[tuwix]

The Zeitgeist Movement and the Venus Project are exactly about that. They want a communism based on artificial intelligence. However, they don't use a word of communism due to its negative connotations.

But the main problem is lack of commodities and automation to replace unpleasant jobs with machines. Artificial intelligence can only help in making decisions.

[ckaihatsu]

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[T]he 'purely autonomous, purely individualistic' paradigm for the proposed technology is a *misconception* to begin with -- maybe it would be possible if inorganic matter somehow managed to self-assemble and grow and evolve the way *organic* matter has on the earth, but that's not the case. No matter how complex and powerful technology can become it's not going to be possible to give it a 'blank slate', intention-wise, because technology is, by definition, the product of *human* intentions.

I don't think *anyone* here would have a problem with *politicizing* any potential tech issue, and calling for individuals to be held accountable for whatever complications arise, the way we would with *any other* societal-type issue.

*This* is the way we should conceptualize all of this, not as some future 'metal baby' that grows to usurp its human parents and then all of humanity.