If there are a thousand neurosurgeons at the border of any country, three thousand machine learning engineers, several economists, other types of engineers, biotech scientists, policy experts and so forth, even when there is no war, how many countries would reject them?
If there are need areas in a country for doctors, engineers, economists, scientists and so forth, does that not mean that they would look for humans with the expertise only, and not just anybody?
What should be understood [already] about how modern society works is that value and productivity are parallel. And it is what is valuable to specific objectives that matter, not just that someone has a brain, or an individual can do something task in the real world.
Modern society has solved lots of problems that made most living people valuable centuries ago. Now, fewer and fewer professions are valuable at a time, in a place. This means that while humans have intelligence, it is what that intelligence is adapted to [expertise] that determine the labor value, in a location, time or situation.
Human intelligence is superior to other organisms, but among humans, demand and supply apply to what makes it significant. If there is no adaptation [training or position] to put intelligence at a higher level, there could be low wages for other things it can do.
So, for the tasks that need high intelligence, training or placement, if intelligence can be provided even from foreigners, it applies. The same can be said that if biological intelligence cannot do something, but machine intelligence can do it, then it applies too. Simply, just like in the migrant situations, where it is people that others need that are welcomed or accepted, so where people need AI too, it is welcomed and accepted, even while some humans around do not seem necessary, because of lack of expertise.
Present-day expertise is shared by capabilities of artificial intelligence chatbots. There are several advancements that AI chatbots can relay accurately, making them a player in human productive processes.
If AI advances to artificial general intelligence [AGI], then that would even take more in possibilities, of tasks, burrowing deeper into labor value.
This should make it necessary to know that AI can displace people and AGI can do more. There are several new possibilities towards preparing for AGI, beyond Universal Basic Income [UBI] that should look at directions to expand human intelligence and what it can do, as more tasks are opened to automation.
New directions like tiered roles for jobs with capped pay, LLMs for marketplaces, labor capital, flipping books at libraries and more, as angles towards change. If AI can do more of what is valuable, people would not be necessary, and finding other things to do, fast enough might be tough without exploring new channels to improve human intelligence for problem-solving, say with human intelligence research lab, before say August 28, 2026.
There is a recent [August 3, 2026] news analysis in The New York Times, Spain’s Leader Is Seen as Soft on Migrants, but He Acted Fast on Ceuta, stating that, “After more than 50,000 migrants surged from Morocco into the Spanish territory of Ceuta, in North Africa, leaders of all political backgrounds either blamed the crisis on the pro-immigration policies of Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s left-wing prime minister, or raised concerns about them.”
“Lost in the criticism was how quickly most of those migrants returned across the border. By Friday morning, less than 24 hours after the breach, a long line of mostly young Moroccan men marched barefoot, hungry, thirsty, and exhausted back to Morocco.”
“Most of the arrivals this past week were given no access to food, water or accommodation — unlike in 2015, when Europe’s mainstream leaders gave shelter to Syrian refugees arriving en masse to the continent.”
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