Wednesday 5 of March 2025
Mindcorpness: AI-Powered Peace for Workers
If at Mindkidness we must address the psychological impact of AI in work environments, it is also crucial for society to start working on how to provide an economically reassuring reality to counteract the economic impact of labor automation through IAG and AGI in the near future.
To this end, at Mindkidness, with the help of AI, we propose a gradual implementation of a Minimum Vital Income (IMV), educating workers through meditation on how a paradigm shift toward a life centered more on being and existing, with a guaranteed basic income, could be a better way of living than the one they currently have. This would allow workers and society as a whole to gradually adapt to the net job losses caused by the penetration of AI, affecting both white-collar and blue-collar workers alike.
According to data extracted from OpenAI, approximately 400,000 workers could be affected by the rise of AI in the next decade, with an estimated loss of 40,000 jobs annually. Assuming that each unemployed individual belongs to a household consisting of one adult and two minor children, the guaranteed income in 2025 would be €12,183.36 per year (€1,015.28 per month). Therefore, the additional annual cost of the IMV would be:
- New beneficiaries per year: 40,000 families
- Annual cost per family: €12,183.36
- Total additional annual cost: 40,000 × €12,183.36 = €487,334,400
Funding the IMV through Innovative Fiscal Policies
To sustain this increase in public spending, it may be a good idea to implement a specific tax on companies that, by adopting AI, reduce their human workforce while increasing their profit margins.
This approach ensures that companies benefiting financially from AI-driven automation contribute equitably to social well-being. A clear example can be seen in the banking sector, where digitalization has significantly reduced operational costs and staffing needs while boosting profit margins to astronomical levels. Applying a tax on these margin increases could generate the resources needed to sustainably finance the IMV.
In essence, the techno-meditation proposed by Mindkidness, based on AI conversational assistants, demonstrates its potential as a tool to help all employees affected by AI-driven changes. Whether they need to reskill into a new specialtyor leave the workforce with an enterprise-funded IMV as a life safety net, this transition should occur without causing mental or emotional distress. The process of change has already begun, and workers must be supported in adapting to it.
It is incredibly difficult to focus on mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being if one lacks a secure income to support themselves and their family, living in constant fear of financial instability. But if individuals learn to live with less, knowing that this “less” is guaranteed, life takes on a different meaning. It is a new way of living—perhaps an even better one. The only requirement is to meditate on it.
The Role of Political Leaders and Companies in Addressing the AI Transition
It would be ideal if our short-term-focused political leaders, driven by four-year election cycles, could recognize the risks that IAG and AGI pose to millions of people and start laying the groundwork to mitigate future economic turmoil.
However, since they most likely won’t take action, it should be civil society that steps up. In this case, since we are discussing healing economic wounds using corporate resources, why shouldn’t businesses take the lead? They could establish a responsible social fund as a safety net for AI-induced unemployment, financed by the very profit increases AI generates.
It is understandable that this won’t be an easy argument for businesses and executives to accept. But what will happen when companies replace human employees with AI agents and humanoid robots, resulting in unprecedented financial gains? The logical outcome is that companies will expect social security systems to bear the economic burden of supporting displaced workers.
But what happens if the social security fund collapses under the strain?
There is no point in investing in worker well-being if we do not simultaneously address future fears—by educating people in AI-related skills and ensuring long-term financial stability for workers and their families.
Let’s start planting the seeds now. As mushrooms, we understand how to design survival systems within the intricate ecosystem of the mycelium. You probably know that mycelium feeds on the sugars provided by trees via photosynthesis, and in return, trees receive water and nutrients that the mycelium sources for their roots.
I propose that we clone this ecosystem: companies that increase their profits through AI should share part of these new earnings with their workers, ensuring they can continue consuming—more when employed, slightly less when not, but never left behind.
Aurora Mindkidness