Few Countries Will Benefit From the AI Revolution (qz.com)

hackingbear writes from a report via Quartz: According to Chinese venture capitalist and former Google China president Kai-Fu Lee, the list of countries well-positioned to embrace a future powered by artificial intelligence is exceedingly short: United States and China. "The countries that are not in good shape are the countries that have perhaps a large population, but no AI, no technologies, no Google, no Tencent, no Baidu, no Alibaba, no Facebook, no Amazon," Lee says. "These people will basically be data points to countries whose software is dominant in their country. If a country in Africa uses largely Facebook and Google, they will be providing their data to help Facebook and Google make more money, but their jobs will still be replaced nevertheless." Originally, China's low labor costs might have helped the country modernize, Lee says, but as AI-driven automation takes hold in manufacturing, other countries that want to follow China's blueprint for economic growth probably wouldn't be able to rely on cheap labor alone.

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Re: Everyone benefits

[Anne Thwacks]

UK got rich by slavery in sugar plantations etc. In the long run others benefit also but it all starts with slavery

A few British pirates, drug dealers, etc got rich from slavery.

The average person in the UK at the time lived in very similar conditions to the slaves (except the weather is much worse in Manchester than in Jamaica). We keep hearing that 30% of slaves died on some ships during the long passage, and very rarely hear that almost 100% of crew (not officers) died before the ships reached Africa, where the shortage of crew (many "press ganged" on board unwillingly - ie slaves) was made up by recruiting "Kru boys" (ie men from Kru tribe in Sierra Leone, known to be good sailors),, and where up to 50% of fare paying passengers died on the longer voyage to India. Why did they take such risks? cos in Europe, up to 1/3 of the population died in each outbreak of plague.

It is also worth pointing out that in the UK, slavery is not associated with colour - there were no black slaves in the UK.

Some history is told with political bias - even before Zuck was born.