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  "title": "What's the end game?",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1vpzg2u/whats_the_end_game/",
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  "upload_date": "20260816",
  "published_at": "2026-08-16T15:07:17+00:00",
  "transcript": "If people like Elon Musk genuinely believe AI and robotics will make most human labor unnecessary -and Musk is predicting that money itself could become irrelevant - why are the political leaders allied with the AI industry moving in the opposite direction right now?\n\nIn 2025, the Trump-backed reconciliation law expanded SNAP work requirements and created new Medicaid work requirements. CBO estimates those provisions will reduce SNAP participation by about 2.4 million people per month and leave an average of 4.5 million more people uninsured. \n\nAt the same time, the administration is aggressively accelerating AI automation - removing regulatory barriers, fast-tracking massive data centers, opening federal land to them, and even making loans, grants and tax incentives available for AI infrastructure. \n\nThose policies seem based on two contradictory ideas: that people should have to work to qualify for basic support, while we’re simultaneously investing enormous resources in technology explicitly intended to reduce the amount of human labor required. \n\nIf the promised end state is a world where people don’t need jobs because AI creates abundance, why are we making survival more dependent on having a job while we build the technology that could eliminate those jobs? What is the actual plan for the transition between those two systems?\n\n\n\n--- Top Comments ---\n\n\n[132 upvotes] There is no coordinated plan, they're headless chickens. They're making short-term decisions in their own personal short-term interests. Even if they try to think of the future, game theory ensures they can't.\n\nPeople seem to attribute an intelligent grand plan to wealthy and powerful people, but like always, they have no clue what they're doing because they're idiots like everyone else. \n\n[22 upvotes] There is no plan.  Musk is talking out of his ass as usual.  Politicians are generally clueless.  Nobody knows what is going to happen.\n\n[17 upvotes] They will have to see it before they believe it, as in unemployment will have to start going up more than a couple .1 percentage points.\n\nUntil then, the Trump admin especially will not be expanding safety nets",
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