"Jyn, my stardust, I have placed a weakness deep within the system. A flaw so small and powerful, they will never find it. I have made the Death Star non-compliant under OSHA 29 CFR 1926.502, incurring a cost of $16,550 per day for failure to abate violations."
The basic economics of Ai even in a perfect scenario where it eliminates 40% of American jobs by 2035 are a complete failure.
The combined salary of every single person in America is $10 trillion. If we take out taxes assuming Ai has to pay the government, that’s approximately $7 trillion.
Assuming a depreciation of 5 years and “conservative” 175 GW of data centers ultimately needed, the yearly replacement cost of equipment will be near $2 trillion. Energy costs will push that to nearly $2.5 trillion of annual maintenance costs.
Let’s assume there is a government bailout to exclude the $1 trillion revenue of annual interest due on bonds. We’ll also assume the corporations will strangely agree to doing this entirely as a charity with no profits. Absolutely no cost outside power and replacement costs.
That $2.5 trillion annual cost would mean 37% of Americans would need to be un-employed just to achieve a break even cost for the most basic costs.
Stupidity.
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