Humanity alongside Artificially Intelligent Industry

[michielbdejong]

Should we start hoarding land and putting it into non-commercial commons trusts?

[michielbdejong]

It's not a given that land will become super-scarce, maybe AI will invent hardware that can run very efficiently in a physically small space, or in a space station, etcetera. Especially solar panels can probably be put on rafts without much need for land. But it's likely that datacenter land will be valuable for the next few hundred years. So if we prohibit legal persons from owning land, and even better, limit the amount of land one human can own, and if humans then rent out that land to legal persons, that would be an elegant way to provide a basic income for humans once their work is no longer valued enough to "work for a living".