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Very good question.

On one hand, the US is surely happy that they’re the epicentre, on the other hand the potential impact on unemployment (fiscal and social unrest) is massive….



Ironically, here in Australia we've just been having a "Royal Commission" (high end public legal investigation) into how the government used an algorithm to pretty much screw over a bunch of people on welfare (several years ago).

https://robodebt.royalcommission.gov.au

So, an "AI" (or ML, etc) version of said scheme could also impact "unemployment" in some further crappy ways too.




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